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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mild reprimand from General Washington, was not so sensational as the treason which followed it. The trial of Aaron Burr for treason was perhaps of equal national interest, but it was not a military trial but a trial before the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond. The nearest parallel to the Mitchell trial is probably the Court of Inquiry in 1901 into the conduct of Commodore Winfield Scott Schley in the Spanish-American...
...more thoughtful moments may possibly be correct. Although American taste in the self-styled aristocracy of brains has never been at a higher level, his theory is, taste among the masses steadily exhibits the opposite tendency. One has only to glance over the periodicals on the nearest magazine stand, to appreciate the very considerable truth of this statement. Such a glance certainly could not leave the observers with any very favorable impression of the mental and moral attainments of the patrons of the stand...
...late President spoke just before his death two years and more ago, a message was read from President Coolidge: "The United States has no higher ambition than that which inspires it to desire a continuance of those mutually beneficent relations which have so long existed between it and its nearest neighbor among the world's great nations...
...clipped last week by an automobile that swept around a corner on H Street as he was taking his constitutional. One of of secret service guardians snatched him from harm's way. Another jumped on the car's running board and had the driver arrested by the nearest policeman. The fellow was charged with cutting corners and failing to give the right of way to pedestrians, was bailed...
...bright morning. Six hours after her start she was only nine miles from the pale cliffs. But against her, also, the tide turned; the undertow clutched at her thighs; the chill of the seas began to penetrate her courage. Once she was 1¼% miles from shore-the nearest that any woman has come to achieving the exploit, but at length, unable to make progress, she was picked up, and her tug chugged back toward France...