Word: post
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...civilian with military experience, a soldierly statesman. A man that notably suited the requirements, was Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, practitioner of law under Elihu Root, of athletics and politics under Theodore Roosevelt, of administration under William Howard Taft, of mediation under Calvin Coolidge. Last week Col. Stimson accepted the post...
...remind everyone how just such "radicals" as the present "progressives" had been "read out of G. O. P. ranks" three years ago (TIME, Dec. 8, 1924) and denied any Senate committee places at all. Now, behold, the "progressives" had been handsomely placed on the committee" -LaFollette on Commerce, Post Offices, Mines; Nye on Immigration, Territories, Commerce, Appropriations and the chairmanship of Public Lands; Frazier on Mines, Post Offices, Agriculture, Banking & Currency and the chairmanship of Indian Affairs; Blaine on Military Affairs, Civil Service, Judiciary and the District of Columbia. Senator Shipstead had been welcomed to six committees, including Agriculture, Public...
With an operation scar healed, with his cheeks pink from the mountain air of Virginia Hot Springs, Myron Timothy Herrick, U. S. Ambassador to France, last week called on Secretary of State Kellogg in Washington and said he would return to his post Jan. 14. He has been absent since June...
...with the Prisoners as they pleased. In consequence many a helpless prisoner was slashed with penknives and spat upon as the group tramped their sorrowful way to execution. . . . Five rifles spat their leaden charge. Five bodies ln turn wilted to rise no more. . . ." Thus the South China Morning Post of Hongkong described, last week, the typically Chinese epilogue to an ugly two-day uprising at Canton, fomented by Soviet Russian Communists. The sole eye-witness account of this revolt to be cabled to the U. S. came from U. S. Consul at Canton Jay C. Huston. Cabled he: "Control...
...participants in them have already progressed far enough to make it difficult for a novice to start in them on an equal basis. In order to provide an opportunity for more new men to learn the rudiments of the fistic art, the athletic authorities have organized the post-vacation class...