Word: either
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hoover is a name in high standing at the Capital-vide the Secretary of Commerce, vide the chief doorkeeper at the White House. But there is a younger Hoover than either of these-a man only 30, gifted with an unusually accurate and comprehensive memory, who is also winning prominence. Attorney General Stone picked him out and promoted him, last week. Now the chair that was Flynn's and the chair that was Burns' is the chair of Hoover -the chair of the Director of the Bureau of Investigation of the Department of Justice...
...This Conference is in no wise connected with the International Disarmament Conference that is to spring either from acceptance of the League's protocol or from an invitation of the President...
...rasping order brought flashing swords to a royal salute. Somewhere in the background the drums of the Grenadier Guards rolled and the band broke into the national anthem. The massive main iron gates were thrown open and through them slowly passed the state coach, six footmen walking on either side. In the rear the Captain of the Household Cavalry led his troop and the small procession passed out into the Mall beyond the Victorial Monument amid deafening cheers from a million uncovered heads and the flutterings of handkerchiefs from the hands of the heads that were covered. On either side...
Herewith are excerpts from letters come to the desks of the editors during the past week. They are selected primarily for the information they contain, either supplementary to, or corrective of, news previously published in TIME...
...refuse such offspring any legal recognition. As early, however, as 1575, one finds an English statute providing that, when a bastard was born in any parish, the local justices of the peace might order the child to be kept by the public authorities and compel either the mother or the reputed father to contribute to its support. The Norwegian law is today considered the most enlightened legislation on the subject. It gives the child the right to be supported according to the economic situation of the more favorably placed parent...