Word: hugheses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
In Evansville, he referred to Secretary of War Weeks as "one of the two unmuzzled members of the Cabinet." (The other member evidently being Secretary of State Hughes, who had, up to that time, delivered three formal campaign speeches. Secretary Weeks had just made a speech in Manhattan.) Mr. Davis...
"The course the President is said to have determined upon is to resign his office before tomorrow noon. At the moment he resigns, Secretary of State Hughes automatically will become acting President . . . will be required by the Succession Act to call Congress into extraordinary session."
¶Bainbridge Colby, Secretary of State under Woodrow Wilson, spoke at Cincinnati two weeks after his fellow lawyer, Secretary of State Hughes, whom he called "the clever lawyer who falls back on methodical ignorance-to shield his client, President Coolidge." Mr. Colby then proceeded into the stormy state of Indiana...
Significant in modern American literature is the reappearance of the South to dispute with the uncouth West and the effete East the attentions of aspiring writers. Two recent works in different fields of literature which have won prizes in competition with hundreds of others, have both dealt, by singular coincidence...
The administration has got itself into a ridiculous position. The public utterances of both President Coolidge and Secretary Hughes have repeatedly pointed out the desirability of continuing to work in the interest of world peace through unofficial channels. With a strong savoring of paternalistic pride they exhibit for public inspection...