Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conspiracy' was formed," said Senator Robinson, "not at the Chicago convention in 1920 but in Washington, during the Wilson Administration, participated in by high officials of that administration and aided and abetted by still other Democrats of high standing." Senator Robinson pictured the late Franklin K. Lane, onetime (1913-20) Secretary of the Interior, as "the originator of the proposal to lease naval oil lands to private interests to be exploited by them...
Virginia's hard-working little Carter Glass, now in the Senate, was one of the late Mr. Lane's closest friends and served with him in the Wilson Cabinet. Now, at Senator Robinson's remark, Senator Glass sprang up, storming: "Does the Senator mean to suggest that Franklin K. Lane ever accepted a bribe from Mr. Doheny? If he does then I denounce him here upon this floor as a slanderer...
...Inquisitor Nye announced that his secretary, who was secretary to the late Senator Edwin F. Ladd of North Dakota, Senator Nye's predecessor as chairman of the investigating committee, had told him how, when the Oil Scandal had just broken four years ago, Will H. Hays asked Senator Ladd to meet him at the White House and then, during a taxi ride, tried to persuade him to "call off" the inquiry. Senator Ladd refused...
...aged Fall's testimony for the new trial. Atlee Pomerene, onetime (1911-23) U. S. Senator from Ohio and since 1924 one of the government's special prosecutors, was there, too, to cross-examine the witness. One of the first things Mr. Fall told was that the late J. W. Zevely, Sinclair's personal attorney and the man for whom he named his famed racehorse "Zev", conducted all the early negotiations for the Teapot lease. Then Sinclair went with Zevely to Fall's office (according to Fall) and protested he would lose money...
...powerful parliamentary debater. He has earned his reward, especially of late, by tirelessly conducting the defense of the Cabinet before the House of Commons on a multiplicity of bills and issues which must have kept him slaving over the preparation of his speeches through many a night. Withal, rubicund Sir Douglas Hogg, who greatly resembles Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, has kept his cheeks pink, his temper cool, his jokes fresh, his judgment sound...