Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Vice President, but doubtless open to persuasion, is Jesse Holman Jones of Texas. For four years he has been the Democratic Santa Claus. He is an astute banker and a big-scale builder as well as a booster. He can point with pride to having served with the late Henry P. Davison at International Red Cross conferences, representing President Wilson...
...recent U. S. diplomatists, none is more conspicuous than Alexander Pollock Moore, the large, hearty, worldly Pittsburgher whom President Harding picked for Ambassador to Spain. When he went to Madrid, Mr. Moore's fame rested on two things-the Pittsburgh Leader, which he had published, and the late Lillian Russell, whose widower he was. Spain's sporting royalty found him a "typical American," loquacious, gustatory, with a head as hard as it was large. Not a few good "tips" did King Alfonso get on U. S. stocks. In return Mr. Moore acquired, by the time he resigned...
...January 8, 1918, the late President Wilson gave his Fourteen Points to the World. One of them stipulated that all people speaking the same language should be concentrated under the role of one state. Theoretically the ideal expressed is beautiful, but immediately the Italians appropriated German-speaking Tyrol; France took German-speaking Alsace; and the German-speaking Czechs were ignored. As always the rights of the minority were neglected and the few were not consulted...
Those who have kept up with the progress of history writing of late years know that the word "hero" is one that has no place in it. Great men of all kinds have been found to have faults just as grievous as their less famous brethren, and the more noted they were the less were they to be revered when their real selves came to light. But heretofore the public has been left its faith in the bad men of times past. From Nero to the Kaiser, various luckless individuals have been the target of unanimous invective and scorn...
...editors of the CRIMSON regret that the issue of yesterday was slightly late in reaching its subscribers. The annual feat of spiriting away the first edition to be run off the presses, made a second issue necessary, and this naturally caused some delay yesterday...