Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effect next autumn, under the Stimson agreement. President Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg made up their minds to supervise the elections anyway, whether Nicaragua adopted the new law or not. Their reason was that the anti-American party in Nicaragua was scheming to embarrass the U. S. by making the latter's "pacification" program seem more illegal than ever. Since the Nicaraguan election does not come until October, the immediate necessity for 1,000 more marines at Managua was obscure, except as moral support for the Administration's policy...
...content with the stirring up of civil tumult, Ex-Registrar Goodwin has taken to the larger field of international diplomacy. The unfortunate situation created by Secretary MacDonald's reference to squirrels and Mexican generals in his statement about Mr. Goodwin is still more entangled by the latter's course. It was bad enough for the Commonwealth to be at sword's points with one foreign power; now Mr. Goodwin would bring Sweden into the fray, and his pointed allusion to the Sacco-Vanzetti commission of last summer may annoy the irritable Signor Mussolini and cause Italy to be arrayed among...
...hometown newspapers. Fresh from a Florida vacation, he was once more setting out his political pot to boil in the warm sun of Manhattan subway disorders and "rampant vice," and in a lunch club talk he either coined or repeated a new word to describe political malefactors. "The latter are graftocrats!" he cried. The press cheered...
John Sloan, Robert Henri, James Montgomery Flagg, famed all of them for worthy and comparatively orthodox works, the latter for his flashy magazine illustrations, allowed themselves to be represented among the Independents...
...most important problem of a tabloid publisher, Mr. Moore weaseled his stand: "We do not make the news. If it happens to be sensational we will not eliminate it on that account. But I want to make a distinction between sensationalism and salaciousness. We will not tolerate the latter...