Word: lansinger
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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His curt dismissal from office by a petulant President on February 11, 1920, still rankles within Mr. Lansing. Despite the verdict of the November elections he feels under public suspicion and in need of justification for his conduct at Paris,--hence this volume anticipating the proper task of the historian...
The world-wide airing of the Lansing-Wilson grievances at a time too late for political effect and too early to secure impartial judgment, may satisfy the avidity of certain irreconcilables, but it neither settles controversy or redounds to the credit of the country; this spectacle of a President riding...
The nomination of Bainbridge Colby for Secretary of State, to succeed Robert Lansing, has astonished the political circles in Washington. That a man with practically no experience in statecraft should be suddenly snatched out of comparative obscurity and placed in the important and difficult position of Secretary of State is...
If the ridiculous assertion that Mr. Lansing's calling cabinet members together to confer on inter-departmental matters constituted an assumption of executive power, if this assertion is not the real motive for his dismissal, the President's selection of a pretext is exceedingly unfortunate. The whole correspondence, moreover, lacks...