Word: somes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After some reflection, Secretaries Adams and Good gravely decided to confer on the matter themselves.
Cried Democratic Gunner Harrison of Mississippi: "I come from a part of the country where people don't believe much in working Saturday afternoon. I share that view. We have had long hours here. Let's see some football, take an auto ride, play golf. We need recreation...
Said Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams: "The Superintendent of the Naval Academy assumed that the difference of opinion was an honest one . . . felt that both would have to yield to some extent. The superintendent of the Military Academy refused to compromise."
Said Secretary of War James William Good: "Forty-four percent of the 1,200 students at West Point have attended some other college or university. . . . Under the three-year rule, West Point would not have a student body from which it could muster a first class team and would be...
The Grand Jury promptly certified their behavior to Justice Peyton Gordon of the District of Columbia Supreme Court. Justice Gordon owes his recent elevation to the bench in no small part to the good newspaper treatment he received when, as U. S. District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of...