Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Senate's Foreign Relations Committee. He became an intimate of President Wilson. After the War, his interests definitely transcended Oklahoma affairs. He had an organized boom to inherit the Wilson mantle at the National Democratic Convention of 1920. He all but joined the La Follette movement four years later, after his "not serious" desire for the Democratic nomination had been balked a second time. "I am and always have been an Insurgent," he once said. In 1925, Mr. Owen left politics and entered the employ of Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. He went abroad and after inspecting Germany, gave...
...call the International Conference of 1876 at Brussels, where he piously proposed to the Great Powers a program for "civilizing" the Congo and suppressing slavery there. The expense of these good works was to be generously defrayed from His Majesty's privy purse. Not until a generation later did the Powers fully realize that they had allowed Uncle Leopold to seize, under humanitarian pretexts, one of the richest colonial empires on the Globe. Astounding is the story of how British-born & U. S.-bred Henry Morton Stanley, greatest African explorer, sought to convince U. S. and British statesmen...
...monkey was obtained with the blood of a native suffering from yellow fever, and soon after, other monkeys were infected with blood and by the bites of infected mosquitoes, from monkey to monkey and from man to monkey. Inasmuch as Dr. Noguchi did not go to West Africa until later (he was in New York during August), he could not have furnished the blood for the monkey inoculation, as reported; in fact, he had nothing to do with them, and you may add to this that his leptospira has never been found in West Africa by the Rockefeller investigators...
...Lawn Tennis Association (TIME, July 30) and he was temporarily reinstated for the finals of the Davis Cup play by the U. S. L. T. A. at the behest of Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France. Gallantly, recklessly he conquered Rene Lacoste of France, and was later trounced in straight sets by Henri Cochet of France. Ambassador Herrick, a quick-acting diplomat, knowing that the French would not feel satisfied unless Tilden was in action, promptly said the necessary words to the U. S. tennis officials. A final decision on Tilden's status will be made when...
Soon there hove into sight the schooner yacht Elena, to be pronounced winner of the cup offered by King Alfonso for Class A boats. The small boats left New York June 30, followed eight days later by the Class A entries. Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond were in command of the Nina; Owner William B. Bell of Manhattan commanded the Elena...