Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...caller next morning left on a White House table some large fans illuminated with the President's portrait and the bold lettering: "Choose Coolidge." ( A White House houseguest of the week was Dwight Whitney Morrow, who required little entertaining so busy was he calling around in officialdom to learn all he could about his new post of U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Morrow took his oath, talked much with the President, heard that he was praised when his predecessor, James Rockwell Sheffield, called on his host...
Secretaries Dwight Filley Davis of War and Curtis Dwight Wilbur of the Navy, and most of their assistants; Attorney General Sargent; Commandant Hanson E. Ely of the Army War College, and 100 officers; Quartermaster-General B. Frank Cheatham; Commandant John A. Lejeune of the Marines, and many another military bigwig, stepped out of motors and trains at the head of Chesapeake Bay one fine morning last week and stuffed cotton or fingers in their ears. They and some 7,000 more or less distinguished civilians were promptly greeted by the cataclysmic detonation, the boiling smoke blast and the vanishing heaven...
...When he stopped to think of it, President Coolidge must have thought of last week as his Latin-American Week. Dwight Whitney Morrow, his new ambassador to Mexico, was preparing to advance upon Mexico City (see POLITICAL NOTES...
Secretary of the Navy Curtis Dwight Wilbur refuted specific Magruder statements now and then as his subordinates furnished him with research. President Coolidge announced that he thought lots of officers and some extra equipment essential to the Navy's efficiency. Rear Admiral Magruder called on Secretary Wilbur, filed a belated copy of his published article and apologized for any embarrassment he might have caused the Navy...
Good Press? Dwight Whitney Morrow, U. S. Ambassador-designate to Mexico, spent busy hours severing connections, settling his affairs, emptying desks and files in J. P. Morgan & Co.'s Manhattan office, whence he had resigned. Then he went to dinner at the Lotus Club as chief guest of Herbert Bayard Swope, energetic executive editor of the Independent Democratic New York World. Other guests, whose presence seemed to promise Mr. Morrow "a good press" in the U. S. after he reaches Mexico City, included Publishers Adolph Ochs of the New York Times, Ralph Pulitzer of the New York World...