Word: granting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Many people honestly believe that one Ulysses Simpson Grant was general of the Federal forces in the Civil War; that he said, "I purpose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer"; that he drank plenty of hard liquor; that he was later President of the U. S. They are wrong. No such person ever did any of these things...
Last week General Grant's grandson, Major Ulysses S. Grant, disclosed that his famed grandfather had been christened Hiram Ulysses Grant. Said he: "History's error was caused by confusion on the part of the Congressman who recommended Hiram Ulysses Grant for West Point. The Representative mixed his name with that of his brother, Simpson Grant, and the erroneous name became fixed...
Born in 1860 when Ulysses S. Grant was a clerk at Galena, this cool-headed Yankee pursued his blue-eyed way through school, through Annapolis, on to the Senatorship and Cabinet Portfolio as Secretary of War under Harding and Coolidge. Meanwhile he had become a millionaire-Hornblower & Weeks, bond house. Political observers in 1921 saw for John Weeks a flower-strewn path to the White House...
Governor Gore of West Virginia received a letter signed, in behalf of a great many of his fellow West Virginians, by the United Mine Workers of America. He was asked to call a special session of the legislature for impeachment proceedings against Judge I. Grant Lazzelle of the Monongalia County circuit. The miners charged that Judge Lazzelle, who, with his brothers and sister, leases coal lands to operators in Monongalia County and enjoys fat royalties, was guilty of "maladministration, corruption, incompetency and neglect of duty." Lately he refused the miners an injunction against four coal companies that had allegedly abrogated...
...modified. . . . I shall be perfectily frank, however, and say that, while I advocate modification, I do not believe the modification of the Volstead Act within constitutional limits will solve the problem permanently. I think we must go back to the 18th Amendment itself and substitute for it a simple grant of power to the Congress. That done, I should hope that the Congress and the States (through the authority of the Congress) could establish in this country, in accordance with local sentiment and desires, some such system as prevails in the Province of Quebec...