Word: toward
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...published the documents, in provocatively deleted form, because that was his idea of good journalism and "patriotism." He said he had hoped to force a Congressional investigation. Mr. Hearst said his private holdings in Mexico were worth three or four million dollars. Since the Calles Government has tended toward a confiscatory policy on alien property, a motive for Mr. Hearst wanting to "sic" the Senate on Mexico was clear. Public implication of the four Senators was, in the opinion of the decent U. S. press (see p. 20), an impudent journalist's "stunt...
Governor Johnston steadfastly ignored his antagonists but cast anxious glances toward the U. S. Supreme Court. To that tribunal, august in Washington, he was determined to carry Oklahoma's vexatious problems: When is a Governor not a Governor? When can a Legislature legislate...
Upon the S. S. Leviathan, steaming toward the U. S. last week, came a tall slender man with brown hair, blue-gray eyes, and a wise, constructive reticence. Safe on the high seas from reporters, Seymour Parker Gilbert lazed and rested from his labors as Agent General of Reparations although the duty of his steady mind is to keep the fiscal balance of a continent, there danced in his head, last week, jocund plans for Christmas at his home and birthplace, Bloomfield, N. J. Old college chums from Rutgers and Harvard Law would make merry with him. He would tower...
...some areas. Agent Gilbert sternly warned that under Article 248 of the Treaty of Versailles the repayment of such loans is made secondary to and contingent upon the prompt payment of reparations. He concluded: "The States and communes have played a major part in the gen eral tendency toward spending in excess of resources which has recently characterized public finance in Germany...
...policy of condemning poor horses and replacing them by mounts given to the Harvard R. O. T. C., by interested alumni, the Crimson Polo Squad is taking the first step toward a drive for the intercollegiate championship...