Word: though
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...newsmen identified him as Arthur Wilson Page, son of the late great Walter Hines Page, U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's. Quickly they jumped to the conclusion- in print-that he was to be the new Assistant Secretary of State, vice Minister Johnson. Wrong though their conclusion was, it served to bring a White House statement: President Hoover had appointed Mr. Page to the U. S. advisory delegation attending the five-power naval parley in London in January. He would serve as personal aide to his great & good friend Statesman Henry Lewis Stimson. Born...
...Good, though 63 years old, emerged favorably from the anesthetic. He gave his wife lucid instructions about pressing War Department business. From his bedside went incessant reports to the White House. Two days after the operation he began to sink. At night President Hoover went to the hospital sickroom. "How are you, my dear friend?" he said. The Secretary mumbled feebly, inaudibly, tried to express appreciation, slumped back unconscious...
...gloves, an acetylene torch. The outer door of the massive safe, its lock drilled and mangled, was open. The inner door, dented, drilled, wrenched on its hinges, was shut. For three hours a safe expert knifed the steel door with an oxyacetylene torch, at last swung it open Potent though the raid had been, the $84.500 was intact...
Yankee Roberts of Missouri, using a peg, passed down his rows in bounds but he was only taking two rows at a time. Harold Holmes of Rio, Ill, working as though there were no hurry at all, took three rows at once, seldom losing an ear. Tague of Iowa had his hat and shirt off and tore at the cornstalks like a madman fighting a phantom army. Near Holmes was his neighbor and friend, Walter Olson, another Swedish-American. Alone in their fields at home they had often tried to decide which could husk fastest. They had 80 minutes...
...George Woodward Wickersham, onetime (1909-13) U. S. Attorney-General, now chairman of President Hoover's law-enforcement commission. They had assured him that the prayer book's prohibition refers to "church" in the sense of "congregation" and would not apply to the loan of a building. Though he tactfully yielded to the bishop's "official admonition," Dr. Reiland felt his legal position was as good as his bishop's; his moral position better. The communion service was shifted to the chapel of Union Theological Seminary; the other sessions of the league were held...