Word: theys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In the White House pressroom a telephone jangled disturbingly. Over the wire came a warning voice: "You guys be ready for a hot story at 2 o'clock." Five minutes later newsmen, looking across the White House lawn, observed a strange movement out on Pennsylvania Avenue. They hurried out to...
The paraders trudged by the White House, turned around before the State War & Navy Building and were starting back when city and White House policemen swooped down to arrest them. The charge: Parading without a permit. Singing the "Internationale" and jeering a White House motor car, they were marched off...
¶ In Washington last week arrived nine very polite little Japanese gentlemen. Delegates to the London naval parley, they had stopped off on their way there to discuss with President Hoover, Statesman Stimson and William Richards Castle, the President's new ambassador to their country (see col. 3) Japan's...
Secretary of the Navy Adams last week called upon Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. M. C., for a written explanation of a speech he made in Pittsburgh last fortnight. Comparing Nicaraguan elections with Philadelphian, General Butler was reported to have said: "We Marines took charge of two elections...
In effect supporting the private grain commission men, the chamber's agricultural committee declared: "The Chamber advocates cooperative marketing . . . only in so far as they are not discriminatory against other private enterprise. ... It is of vital importance to the preservation of private capital investments in storage and other physical...