Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...encircled with a wall of fire." From this threatening situation the country emerged, by Tyler's skillful diplomacy, a world power, and without any bloodshed whatever. The factors in this result were the great Treaty of Washington (1842), negotiated, as Daniel Web ster, Tyler's Secretary of State, declared, "from step to step and from day to day under the President's own immediate supervision and di rection," the virtual protectorate established over the Hawaiian Islands, the annexation of Texas which made possible the acquisition of California and New Mexico, and the opening of the Orient through...
...Convention. After Lincoln's inauguration his mind appeared in a kind of maze. He signed important papers without reading them, and while refusing to see the Confederate Commissioners, suffered them to tarry in Washington, where they were fed with all sorts of promises by Seward, his Secretary of State. What does James Schouler, a friendly historian say? It is that Lincoln's behavior through the month of March, 1861 was as "though he had no policy and was waiting for his Cabinet to form one for him." And yet this month was the crucial period of his administration...
Alexander H. Stephens said of Tyler's State Papers that "in point of ability they compared favorably with those of any of his predecessors," and Jefferson Davis said that "He was the most felicitous among the orators he had known...
This afternoon Captain Whitbeck and M. T. Hill '30, No. 2 on this year's team, will face G. E. Abbot '17 and W. W. Weld '16 in the finals of the State Mens' doubles tournament at the Squash Center in Newton...
Such beliefs identify Mr. Coolidge with the well-to-do Man in the Street, but aside from merits thus appropriate to a democratic state, they have little value. They ignore scores of shamefully protracted trials, and they give the abstract lie to scores of meaningful psychological statistics. Harry Elmer Barnes may go on believing that the last twenty-five years have given man more knowledge of this problem than the preceding two thousand. The Thomas Mott Oshornes of America may yet succeed in making the prison punitive rather than corrective. But as long as men of Mr. Coolidge's eminence...