Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With pleasure we note your article on my appointment as Democratic Committeeman of the Second Ward, Chicago, Ill...
JACK JOHNSON† Committeeman, Democratic Organization Second Ward Chicago, Ill...
...Mexico. ". . . Because of ill-defined boundaries of the sparsely settled political subdivisions of the old Spanish colonial empire, the independent states of America carved out of it, fell heir to a large number of territorial disputes which, in many cases, were of an exceedingly delicate and difficult nature. It is a tribute . . . that most of these disputes have been settled by the orderly process of negotiation, mediation, and arbitration...
Last week stubborn, tenacious Dr. Gessler suddenly transmitted to President Paul von Hindenburg his resignation, giving as his reasons, "my ill health and the effects of a personal blow of Fate." Deeply concerned, old Paul von Hindenburg kept the resignation secret for two days, conveyed to Dr. Gessler the hope and the sincere wish that he would reconsider...
Because correspondents assume that no statesman ever resigns "because of ill health" they sought but failed to find a political motive. Time was when the Allied nations fairly howled for Gessler's official head, imputing to him the organization of secret German defense units: "The Black Reichswehr." This and a score more of tempests and squalls could not unhorse him. Tomorrow would have brought him only a few more tilts and joustings with statesmen and politicians whom he has often worsted...