Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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*Simultaneously before New York's City Hall a demonstration of 500 communists against U. S. policy in Haiti was broken up by mounted police, 18 demonstrators arrested. The charge: No permit.
Woodrow Wilson went to the Paris Peace Conference on the S. S. George Washington. Last week Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl, U. S. fiscal autocrat, compelled Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson and the six other U. S. delegates to travel on the same ship to the London naval parley...
A good diplomatist must be a pinch-hitter. Pinch-hitting was what President Hoover wanted of Assistant Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr. when he sent him to bat last week as U. S. Ambassador to Japan. Mr. Castle was expected to make one hit and get back to...
Trouble enough has the Japanese post given President Hoover. Most expensive of diplomatic jobs (it is estimated to require $50,000 per year more than the ambassadorial salary of $17,000) it was left vacant a year ago by the resignation of Charles MacVeagh. President Hoover offered it to both...
1) he knows by heart every twist and turn of the U. S. naval parley program;