Word: generalship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pass. Instead of knocking it down and covering receivers, in the fashion proper for goal-line defenders, he caught it, raced 96 yards for the only touchdown of the game. Notre Dame 7, Army 0. Brainy, hard running, hard kicking Carideo's punts were sometimes blocked but his generalship vindicated the judgment of critics who had already made him their choice for All-American quarterback. Once "All-American" meant the personal opinion of the late great Walter Camp. Now each U. S. newspaper has its Camp, its All-American team. Notre Dame's big schedule of games...
Little more than a year ago they declared an armistice upon another front Then Mr. Meyer, recently elected to generalship, made a truce with Shell in India after a great price-cutting was resulting from Socony's bringing Russian petroleum down to Bombay and Calcutta (TIME July 16, 1928). Now another armistice may be necessitated. Shell having duplicated Socony's Indian tactics and spent some $40,000,000 for the acquisition ol service stations in Socony's homeland...
...Work resigned because he is 69 and his post is an empty honor. What he wanted out of the Hoover victory was not office (although Postmaster Generalship had been offered him) but power. As National Republican Chairman he yearned to sit at the jobbery turnstile passing his favorites through to their patronage rewards. And to satisfaction of this desire he felt himself entitled, for it was he, the Colorado doctor and Secretary of the Interior under Calvin Coolidge, who early espoused the Hoover cause, when it was risky to do so, and nurtured it from a shapeless hope...
Said Senator Borah (great Hoover-Prohibition orator who was said to have been offered the Attorney-Generalship before Mr. Mitchell): "It [the snoop system] cannot be justified upon any theory of law or justice or expediency. ... I predict that the system will be discontinued. ... It involves fake or fraudulent commitments. . . . These commitments must involve the courts. I would not hesitate to vote to impeach a judge who had signed or issued such papers. . . . It is about 300 years behind the times in prison management...
Despite Mr. Young's announcement, however, prophets in political circles refuse to omit his name from the list of candidates for the assistant attorney generalship, for he has long been recognized as one of the leading supporters of President Hoover as well as one of the nation's leading lawyers. After being graduated from Harvard College in 1907 and from the Law School in 1911, he was admitted to the bar and has been held one of the leading members. He was a member of the Board of Overseers of the University from 1922 to 1928, and has given almost...