Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washing- ton from Ludlow, Vt., recovered at last from long illness. President and Mrs. Coolidge went to the Sargents' for a dinner which was a friends' reunion as well as the fourth function of a regular series conducted in wintertime by Cabinet members. Secretaries Kellogg, Mellon and Dwight Filley Davis had already performed their duties in this respect. Secretary Work's dinner was scheduled next. C. At the White House, the third state dinner of the season, for the Judiciary, passed off brightly. Chief Justice Taft of the Supreme Court twinkled and chuckled as guest of honor...
...Since the Conference seemed doomed to drone indefinitely, or for a month at least, one busy member of the U. S. Delegation, Dwight W. Morrow, onetime Morgan partner, hastily departed, last week, to resume his post as U. S. Ambassador to Mexico...
Died. John Wilbur Dwight, 68, of Dryden, N. Y. and Washington, onetime (1903-1913) Republican Congressman, president since 1913 of the Virginia Blue Ridge Railway; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
They meant not only that he was filling well the sub-Cabinet post that fell to him when Dwight Filley Davis was promoted in 1925 but that he had a good banking business back home, as much vitality as ambition, a hard head, and a multitude of friends everywhere (in 1922-23 he commanded the American Legion). The sum of these is political potency. When he resigned his post last week there instantly was talk about Col. Hanford MacNider's running for Senator from Iowa next autumn. In Iowa, he was even mentioned for the Vice Presidency...
...MOODY: A WORKER IN SOULS- Gamaliel Bradford-Doran ($3.50). "Are you a Christian?" This was Dwight Lyman Moody's habitual salute to those whose souls he wished to preserve for eternity. Gamaliel Bradford, wishing to preserve the heroic figure of the evangelist, asks a few questions in return. Since D. L. Moody is no longer alive to answer the questions, Author Bradford.must supply his own replies. A wise and searching biographer, he explains very credibly a person who, in an age of great preachers, Was perhaps the tallest and most mighty among them...