Word: granted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...began his career on the staff of the Springfield Republican. Following that, he spent five years as private secretary to Henry Cabot Lodge. He emulated his chief, who wrote the Life of George Washington for the Statesman's Series by himself writing the Life of Ulysses S. Grant for the same series. Later he became a Washington correspondent, an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1908-09), then went into business, in which he has many interests. In 1904, under Roosevelt, he was director of the "Literary Bureau" of the Republican National Committee...
...Emperor of Japan, who has been traveling! in Europe, cancelled a proposed visit to the U. S. No reason for the cancellation was given. The present Government announced that it would, if reëlected, introduce a bill in the next session of the Diet to grant suffrage to all* male Japanese subjects, except paupers, insane, etc. According to reports emanating from a British source, Japan is now seeking oil in Persia. This statement was founded upon the fact that Japanese commercial agents are there for the first time in the past 50 years. Said the diplomatic correspondent...
While what is said by Percy Grant...
...cake and have it too, no man may listen and no type repeats. But should we pretend to want tax reduction and at the same time advocate the bonus, the increase of pensions, the German relief appropriation, the rise of Government salaries and the $100,000,000 grant to the wheat farmer, the printed word takes up the refrain at once and the impossible seems possible because it is printed...
Died. Brigadier General Horatio Gates Gibson, 97,"oldest living West Pointer"; in Washington. He entered just as Ulysses S. Grant graduated. Due to his slight stature, he was nicknamed "Agnes"?an appellation which clung to him through life. When he was a lieutenant at the battle of Fredericksburg, his sword was cut from his side by a shell; at the end of the Civil War he was a captain in the regulars. A nonagenarian at his daughter's house in Washington, he smoked from six to ten cigars daily...