Word: fors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Riot and bloodshed had occurred in what Secretary of State Stimson characterized as "an exceedingly serious situation." President Hoover, alarmed, sent a special message to Congress, asked for another commission of investigation. Since 1915 when President Vilbrun Guillaume Sam was publicly butchered* and revolution and carnage reigned, the U. S...
President Hoover was deeply disturbed by these events. At the request of High Commissioner Russell, he gave terse orders to Secretary of the Navy Adams. Quickly out of Hampton Roads sailed the U. S. S. Wright bearing a detachment of 500 Marines to supplement the force of 700 already in...
With the approach of these forces, a hush fell over Haiti and quiet was temporarily restored. But from Congress came a menacing rumble as critics of U. S. policy in the Caribbean gathered for a new attack.
Henry Lewis Stimson, pillar of the New York Bar, was startled one day in 1919 to learn that his sister-in-law had been clapped into a Washington jail. She had, of course, done nothing disgraceful. "Votes for women" was a fashionable as well as a militant movement then and...
Last week, while her distinguished brother-in-law was engrossed in great affairs of state, Mrs. Rogers went on another of her frequent trips to Washington. If she thought at all of her jail experience it was now a dim, happy memory, for women now have their votes and Mrs...