Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...problem was: How to keep the Philippines under the War Department yet give them a civilian rather than military administration? The solution was: Appoint as successor to the late Governor General Leonard Wood a civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...veto-power only to prevent dereliction. U. S. business was glad. Educated at Yale and Harvard, cultivated in Manhattan, Col. Stimson has a conservative backround and, by his pacification of Nicaragua last spring, his ability has been demonstrated. Mrs. Leonard Wood was glad, too. Col. Stimson was long her late husband's friend...
...late George Hearst of California (U. S. Senator 1886-91), who once said: "I don't understand my boy Bill. . . but there's one thing I have noticed about him. When he wants cake he wants it and he wants it now." William Randolph Hearst got into the House of Representatives for two terms (1903-07). His effort to be Democratic nominee for President in 1904 fell flat despite his reputed expenditure...
Which Jew, by his services to the U. S., deserves to be honored with a statue, was the question that the Jewish Tribune put to its readers last Rosh Hashonah (TIME, Oct. 3). Last week came the decision-the late Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926), diplomat. He was the friend and aid of four U. S. Presidents. For Grover Cleveland he went to Turkey as U. S. Minister; at Constantinople he protected the U. S. mission schools & colleges. For William McKinley he again went to Turkey as Minister. William Howard Taft sent him there a third time, as Ambassador. Meanwhile...
Skjellerup's comet, originally expected to become visible Monday night and which has not yet appeared here, will not appear until the night before Christmas or on Christmas morning. It was learned at a late hour last night from the Harvard College Observatory. Owing to the fact that the sky-wanderer is pursuing a course divergent from the one original computed for it and now seems to lie along a line passing through the earth and the sun, it will not be readily visible as at first believed. When it comes within range, it will be for only one nocturnal...