Word: dwight
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean the continuance of his Socialist Anti-Catholic policies. During the week General Calles' so-called "puppet," President Portes Gil, called at the U. S. Embassy?something which no Mexican President has done for many, many years?and expressed to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow the Government's extreme gratitude for the rifles and ammunition which President Hoover is permitting to enter Mexico in hopes that the federal soldiers will thus be aided to make a quick peace. During the week Finance Minister Luis Montez de Oca announced that he had spent...
When two major revolutions broke out in Mexico last week on the very day before U S. President Hoover's Inauguration, correspondents heard a flustered official of the U S State Department exclaim that Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow, on his recent visit to Washington, certainly did not give Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg any reason to think that Mexico was on the brink of revolution. Curiously enough, the only U. S. daily which let this indiscreet admission into cold type was New York's arch-Republican Herald-Tribune...
Died. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, 71, famed Congregational clergyman, and onetime pastor of Plymouth Congregational Church of Brooklyn, where he upheld the traditions of preachers Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman Abbott, after a month's illness; at Bronxville...
Especially after his engagement to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow's daughter Anne (TIME, Feb. 25), the rumor grew that President-Elect Hoover would give Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh a sub-Cabinet job. The rumor vexed Mr. Hoover. Perhaps that was a reason for Col. Lindbergh's unexpected appointment last week by Secretary Whiting to be technical adviser to the aeronautical branch of the Department of Commerce...
What man, now living, do you admire the most? Lindbergh, and "my father," 25; Andrew W. Melion, 20; Herbert Hoover, 19; Bernard Shaw, 18; Thomas A. Edison, 16; Mussolini, 13; Alfred E. Smith, 9; Henry Ford, 5; Einstein, and "Myself," 4, Richard E. Byrd, and Dwight W. Morrow...