Word: moment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Renewal. The discovery of all these facts was in progress last winter just before and at the moment that Secretary Work had to decide about letting Sinclair exercise his Salt Creek option. Besides the Senate's investigation, the trial of Sinclair for criminal conspiracy was then fresh in Washington's mind. Sinclair's was an extraordinary name indeed, but Dr. Work took no extraordinary precautions. He simply asked the Solicitor of the Interior Department if he thought Sinclair's option was valid. Solicitor Ernest Odell Patterson said he thought...
This was not a coincidence, President Coolidge, seeing what the World and Senator Walsh were doing had demanded from his Attorney General immediate delivery of the opinion he had requested 224 days before. If it was obvious that the World and Senator Walsh had chosen a politically important moment to force the issue, it seemed equally obvious that Attorney General Sargent had meant to delay his unfortunate news until after Election...
...once in the campaign the opposing Nominees were in the same state at the same moment. The day after Nominee Smith reached Albany he turned his back on politics and went out for a restful game of golf. That same evening, amid the booming of flashlights and headlines, Nominee Hoover arrived in Manhattan. In the Hoover pocket was a speech, probably the most earnestly composed document of his campaign...
...even Texas. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican candidate for Congressman-at-large, diverted some attention with a barbecue at her farm northwest of Chicago, at which 10,000 Republicans consumed six tons of beef and pork, 200 barrels of potatoes, five truckloads of bread. But it was a prime moment for the Brown Derby to be in the heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics (see p. 7). People were waiting to hear...
...polite tempest of gossip and denial that the great Earl of Birkenhead would resign as Secretary of State for India was finally stilled, last week, when he, burly, brilliant and socially lionized, despatched to Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin a lengthy letter. Suave, it concluded: "The moment of parting is always sad. Your own personality has converted a Cabinet which assembled upon the crater of some bitter and recent memories into a band of brothers. I leave them and you with emotion and, if I may be allowed to say so, with affection."-Birkenhead...