Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were responsible for the selection of Gen eral Pershing for his high command. Senectissimus may have had something to do with Pershing's marvelous rise from Captain to Brigadier, but in this important matter he had no hand. This can be easily verified by consulting with Ex-Secretary Newton Diehl Baker or Brigadier General George Van Horn Moseley in com mand of the First Cavalry Division of El Paso, Texas. PAUL GALLAGHER...
Walter Hughes Newton,* representing the Fifth (Minneapolis) Congressional District of Minnesota, resigned to become a Hoover secretary, to handle particularly post office patronage. A Republican primary was ordered. Mr. Coleman. good Newton friend that he was, resigned as Minneapolis postmaster to run in that primary. He had ample reason to believe he was the Administration's choice for nomination and election. Against him ran two other Republicans: Lieut. Gov. W. I. Nolan and onetime Yale footballer Walter William Heffelfinger (TIME June...
...Hoover Secretary Newton proved to be a true and unfailing friend. Words from him on post office matters carry great weight at the White House. The Minnesota election was barely over before President Hoover appointed Also-Ran Coleman to be First Assistant Postmaster-General, second-in-command of the whole vast U. S. postal service. A friend of Statesman Stimson and Leader Tilson might not win, it seemed, but a friend of Secretary Newton simply could not lose...
...Last week Secretary Newton sped by air and rail from Washington to Minneapolis where his six-year-old son had been run over by a street car while riding a bicycle, had had a leg amputated...
...Newton Center, Mass...