Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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 home-plate as fast as possible. His appointment to Tokyo was only for the duration of the five-power naval conference in London. Before his departure, he will confer this week with the Japanese parley delegates passing through...
...Honolulu 51 years ago, as was his father 80 years ago. Castle Sr. rendered the Hawaiian monarchy notable service, was its attorney-general, its minister to Washington. He took a leading part in the movement for U. S. annexation. Lawyer, banker, public utilities man, Castle Sr. is today one of Hawaii's most venerable citizens (TIME, July 8). The brightest spot in the Tokyo assignment is the visit the son will pay the father between ships in Honolulu...
Blackmail. Two Bostonian District Attorneys and a Federal District Attorney's assistant put the "age-old badger game on a big business basis." It cost disporting cinema tycoons $105,000 to hush up one party; $120,000 preserved the reputation of a famed tenor; $380,000 kept a New England railroad president's name unsullied...
...right' very high up indeed," can smash small operators. Hip-pocket bootleggers, some boys not over 16, peddle booze "under the 'L' on Washington Street." In nearly every office building is at least one speakeasy. Boston police deliver good whiskey to customers...
...despair, in the weighing of different deaths, in a whisper passed with a plate at mess, along a file at exercise, in a package slipped under the table in the visitors' room, a stolen knife, a gun under the grey clothes?so prison breaks begin, nobody knows just how. One morning last week at Auburn. N. Y., an appointed moment came. Father Donald Cleary, the prison's young chaplain, found a strange party in one of the corridors...