Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...near distance, Vice President Dawes hovered; from Havana he set sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday interest in the Panama Canal with the facts that Navy officers have declared the canal indefensible in time of war a,nd the rumored plans...
...presidential salute. It was for Louis Borno, President of the Negro Republic of Haiti (see p. 6). From the deck of the Trenton he watched the U. S. display its naval power while he chatted with Theodore Douglas Robinson, fourth Roosevelt to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy. They saw the greatest force of U. S. sailors that has ever been assembled, the combined Atlantic and Pacific fleets. Fifteen Admirals took part in the review; Admiral Hughes commanded...
Before dawn in Elsinore, Denmark, where Hamlet saw his father's ghost, a young British newspaper correspondent excitedly climbed aboard a small tugboat. He, Philip Gibbs of the London Daily Chronicle, was late in covering his assignment. Finally he reached the good ship Hans Egede, scrambled up a rope ladder. On deck, newspapermen talked about the North Pole in polyglot tongues. Mr. Gibbs introduced himself to a man with a heavy nose and queer eyes, who said: "Come and have some breakfast...
...Travia's smiling young lawyer rushed, shook hands all around. He, Alfred E. Smith Jr.,* son of New York's famed Governor, Alfred E. Smith, had won his spurs in his first murder case. Democrats who hope to see Governor Smith installed in the White House, saw in his son's success a new and good omen. For most U. S. Presidents who have bred sons have bred smart ones,- witness President Adams the Elder, Harrison the Elder, Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, Taft...
Through the two movements of Mr. Carillo's Concertino Mr. Stokowski led the orchestra into strange and subtle effects of fractional tone. Of the audience, some saw prospects of infinite, new subtleties of music; many found their ears too coarse for the 96-tone octave, only heard slightly distorted semi-tones...