Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...extend a Government barge line on the upper reaches of the Mississippi. He then told them he favored private operation of that barge line, regarded Federal operation as an experiment. A delegation of railroad men, who wanted to express disapproval of the proposed Lakes-to-Sea waterway, arrived late by plane from the Twin Cities, missed their appointment. Before going back to Brule, President Coolidge inspected a 41-Ib. muskellunge which one W. R. Ross had caught at nearby Teal Lake, Wis. The President asked Fisherman Ross how he had caught it. Fisherman Ross gladly explained and asked the President...
...piece" calculated to help Hoover beat Smith. It was an honest effort by Writer Ruhl to report on Nominee Smith as he saw him. Excerpts: "There is something intensely real about 'Al' Smith . . . something alive, dynamic, go-ahead-reality in a spiritual sense. . . . "The late President Harding, let us say, presented a façade which was suave and winning. . . . But once touched or pierced it too often turned out to be but a façade and little more. . " 'Al' Smith's façade, the grin, cocked derby and half-chewed cigar...
...late Nikolai Lenin held M. Rabinovich in such esteem that the Jew, although a "bourgeois," was seated as technical expert on highest Soviet commissions and was, at the time of his arrest, virtually the industrial dictator of the region...
Died. U. S. Junior Senator Frank Gooding of Idaho, 68, onetime (1905-07) Republican Governor of Idaho, hardy antagonist in 1907 of the late "Big Bill" Haywood, whose supporters daily threatened the Governor's life, recently an active member of the Senate committee investigating coal strike conditions; of cancer; in Gooding, Idaho...
Died. Joseph Kittridge Choate, 74, consulting engineer, president of the Morris County Traction Co., for 15 years vice president of the J. G. White Management Corp., nephew of the late famed Joseph H. Choate; of bronchial pneumonia; in San Francisco...