Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...quality"-the threshold of Henry Adams, sardonic New Englander, connoisseur of life and all its arts, a man who said of himself: ". . . as far as he had a function, it was as stable-companion to statesmen, whether they liked it or not." Over the Adams threshold daily came John Hay, "the roving diplomat," Secretary of State to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, Adams' great friend. Here came Clarence King, a professional geologist of rare spirit, who "knew more than Adams did of art and poetry . . . knew America west of the 100th meridian better than anyone . . . knew even women-even...
Western Reserve-in whose history and upbuilding such men as John Hay, U. S. Secretary of State under Roosevelt; Rutherford B. Hayes, 19th U. S. President; Myron T. Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France; Newton D. Baker, onetime U. S. Secretary of War; and Samuel Mather, Cleveland coal and iron man have figured-has specialized principally in the liberal arts. The Case School is chiefly scientific. Where the two overlap, waste motion is now seen. The proposed amalgamation would leave each institution separate autonomy under unified control, would, by extension of their activities, try "to lead higher education...
...often denied this and is known to be impatient when the press continues to promulgate rumors which he has denied. The latest rumor was that he might visit Plymouth, Vt., for ten days. If he should go home for ten days to help his father bring in the hay, it would fit in admirably with the Home Town Club's propaganda...
...believe, with John Hay, that our forefathers in their wisdom fixed it so that the kickers should rule. I believe that the kickers should not rule...
...proposed successor to the popular Cyrus E. Woods (TIME, June 16), but it might be stated that Pr. Schurman has 'been actively identified with the traditional U. S. Far Eastern Policy of the "Open Door" in China, as laid down by U. S. Secretary of State John Hay a quarter of a century ago and amplified by Secretary Hughes at the Washington Conference in 1921 into an assertion of Chinese integrity and an organized attempt to create a strong central government in China. This policy runs counter to the hopes of Japanese business and to the ambitions of Japanese...