Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover left Washington last week for the first time since inauguration. He was gone eleven hours on an inspection of his Virginia fishing preserve in Shenandoah National Park. He rode a horse ten miles through mountain woods, tramped three miles more on foot, picked out three camping sites between Double-top and Fork Mountains on the Upper Rapidan. In a black riding habit, Mrs. Hoover accompanied him part way. Forbidden to follow, newsgatherers and cameramen had a holiday...
...James Clement Dunn, Chief of the State Department's Protocol Division, Secretary Kellogg had apparently gone for this precedent. And Mr. Dunn had apparently based his opinion upon the authoritative statement of Mrs. Kellogg's social secretary, Miss Anne Squire, who had written: "Sisters . . . of an official take no precedence whatever. Even when they act as hostesses for the head of a family, they are, except in his house, deprived of the rank of wife." To all Embassies and Legations had gone this Kellogg ruling on Mrs. Gann...
...northwest fringe of Washington. To it went, with many another high U. S. official, Vice President Curtis and Mrs. Gann. Mr. Gann also went. He knew that Mr. McLean publishes the Washington Post and the Cincinnati Enquirer; that he was a bosom friend of President Harding; that he had "gone down the line" for Albert Bacon Fall, during the oil scandals; that his wife owns but rarely wears the Hope Diamond (44½ karats...
From India, Dr. Jones brought this message to the U. S.: "The biggest task before America at the present time is the spiritualization of the vast resources which have been put into our hands. If these get us, we are gone. If we get behind them with a passion to serve, then they rise from the sordid to the sacred...
...Last week, when Paris correspondents feverishly cabled their great scoop, every well-informed businessman knew about the giant I.T.&T. whose stock had gone up more than 100 points in one year. A year ago, before the Brothers Behn acquired the Mackay telegraph and cable systems (TIME, April 2, 1928), many an executive would have been put to it to explain: 1) What was the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp.; and 2 ) Who were Sosthenes and Hernand Behn...