Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Louisiana, St. Bernard Parish, a riverside neighborhood below New Orleans, was the scene of shooting, clubbing, screaming, money-grabbing, hacking with axes, punitive bonfires. Huey P. Long, youthful, tempestuous, theatrical, newly-installed Governor of Louisiana, had been busying himself with whirlwind reforms in various departments of the State, when he heard that two St. Bernard gambling houses had dared to reopen despite his warning. He issued and personally taxied with an order to the Adjutant General to call out a raiding party of the National Guard. The offending establishments, facing each other in the same street, were the Jai-Alai...
Ambassador Houghton, Postum-tycoon Hutton, Pastor Cadman left on the Homeric; on the lle de France went the U. S. Secretary of State...
Final vindication of the Ile de France as a safe ship came, last week, when she was boarded by U. S. Secretary of State Kellogg, whose famed nickname is "Nervous Nelly." At the pier, he exhibited a nervous indecision between taking an elevator to the embarking platform or climbing up the stairs. Finally he climbed. Both Secretary & Mrs. Kellogg not only admonished their porters to be careful but kept a watchful eye upon them, lest they jerk off a worn trunk handle or dent a new suitcase. But Mr. & Mrs. Kellogg did board the Ile de France, and settled down...
When "Nervous Nelly" noted that the passenger's namecard outside his door read "Secretary of State of the United States of America," he rang for the steward, expostulated, had card changed to read "Frank B. Kellogg," even insisted on omission of his rightful prefix...
...long ago the bitter-brilliant publicist Maximilian Harden went to a State Reception held at the Foreign Office of the German Republic. He skulked about. There were mountains of caviar sandwiches, sideboards snowy with ices, trays of brimming champagne goblets; and all the women had shaved and powdered under their armpits. These things put Publicist Harden into a towering, democratic rage...