Word: signed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, Hooverites started forming a Committee of One Thousand. Of the 237 Republicans in the House of Representatives, 110 signed up. At least 20 of the 48 Senate Republicans were expected to sign. The Hooverizing petition said: "We have been fortunate in President Coolidge. We must have in his successor, through the Republican Party, an assurance of continuity, stability and national progression...
Foreign Minister Aristide Briand of France wants to sign a two-power treaty "outlawing war" between his country and the U. S. Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg insists that the treaty be a multi-power affair "renouncing war as an instrument of national policy." Out of the clash of these two concepts has come a nine-month long game of diplomatic bean bag (TIME, July 4, 1927). Last week M. Aristide Briand sent one more note to Washington from which it appeared that the French position is now, in substance, as follows...
Summer is indeed "a-cuminage in". There is no surer sign of it than the advent of the spring vacation-now for once the Easter vacation-and the completion of the first batch of April hours. O custom, what crime are committed in thy name! And then yesterday afternoon, as the Vagabond was wandering along the sylvan banks of the limpid, winding Charles-somewhere up near Watertown, just this side of the abattoir-wandering be it said with no ulterior purpose but perhaps with a lurking desire to see a burnished dove and prove the business about the newer iris...
...President Coolidge sent an answer to Wyoming, in a certain way. He told his secretary what to say, and let the secretary sign the letter. This procedure, after "I do not choose" (August) and "My wishes will be respected" (December), seemed intended to show that the Everlasting Nay had now become a matter of office routine. Secretary Sanders wrote: "The President directs me to say that he must decline to grant the request of the committee...
...lean-to shack to the top of the canyon, saving his life. But his brother and niece in a nearby cabin were sucked into a watery death. At Newhall a morgue was established in a dance pavillion; 50 bodies lay in rows on tilted boards; an old sign over the door said: "WELCOME...