Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Engineer Hoover went to Australia, sent an important cable, returned to Monterey, went (because of the hurry) to a Catholic priest, and sailed away to China with Lou Henry Hoover, are details familiar to all since the campaign. Mrs. Hoover moves steadily through his background from then on. At Tientsin during the Boxer Uprising, she nursed the wounded at the club, scooting past open corners of the compound on a bicycle while bullets whizzed above...
Among the guests invited were Speaker Longworth and his popular, influential wife, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, onetime "Princess Alice" of the White House. Great is Mrs. Longworth's political prestige, great her social power, independent her behavior. She sent Mrs. Meyer her regrets, making it clear that she declined to sit below Mrs. Gann. Not to be outdone, Mrs. Gann and the Vice President, likewise stayed at home that evening...
...state, he said he would now support it. He added lamely a hope that it would never be used. "The People." The new Kansas Senator, Henry Justin Allen, made his first speech in the Senate, supporting the President's opposition to debentures. When he said, "the people who sent me here-!" a time-honored congressional cliche, there were grins on the Democratic side, snickers in the gallery. As everyone but the Senator recalled, the "people" who sent Senator Allen were not the voters of Kansas. They were General Counsel James Francis Burke of the Republican National Committee and Secretary...
...Secretary of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America] and that you, Mr. Green [William Green, head of American Federation of Labor] representing millions of workers, can feel that broadcasting is reflecting either the interests of the church or the home when such harmful propaganda is sent through the air." Thus, half-incredulous, half-accusatory, the Open Letter appealed to the better natures, the higher selves, of Advisory Council members. It made particular reference to Owen D. Young (whose General Electric Co. it credited with controlling National Broadcasting), felt that Chairman Young could not knowingly permit...
...Army's refueling champion plane, the Question Mark, flew for 150 hrs. before its engines, plain worn out, sent it down...