Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge sought to avoid the appearance of selfish "grasping for office." Presidents, he found, "are always surrounded by worshipers. They are constantly . . . assured of their greatness. They live in an artificial atmosphere of adulation and exaltation which sooner or later impairs their judgment. They are in grave danger of becoming careless and arrogant...
...President and appointed Eaton his Secretary of War. Washington society turned fiercely upon Mrs. Eaton, refused to accept her, slandered her morals. President Jackson took her side, as did Secretary of State Van Buren. Van Buren and Eaton resigned from the Cabinet as a protest, Van Buren becoming President later, thanks to Jackson's support, which he gained largely in the Peggy Eaton case...
...last week like fire in broom straw across the face of the industrial South. Though their causes were not directly related, they were all symptomatic of larger stirrings in that rapidly developing region. Labor troubles first developed in Eastern Tennessee, were followed by strikes in South Carolina and later in North Carolina...
Hoffman was similarly pounced upon in the hotel lobby, blindfolded, forcibly despatched to the North Carolina line. Five men, one a foreman at the Bemberg plant, were later arrested, held for trial. President William Green of the A. F. of L. protested the "outrage" to Tennessee's Governor Henry Hollis Horton...
...charge was: Governor Long, "in an attempt to suppress the freedom of the press," had intimidated Publisher-Critic Charles P. Manship of the Baton Rouge Daily State Times, by threatening to expose the fact that Mr. Manship's brother, Douglas, was in an insane asylum. Later Governor Long, in a radio speech, made good his threat. What he did not say was that Douglas Manship was a shock-victim...