Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor fight beside their principals. According to the modern version of the code, seconds must try to effect a reconciliation satisfying to the honor of all parties. In the political duel which began month ago before the Senate Committee on Territories & Insular Affairs over the honor of the Virgin Islands, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes and Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings followed the ancient code. They joined the combat in support of their respective principals, Virgin Islands Governor Paul M. Pearson, accused of maladministration, and Virgin Islands Judge T. Webber Wilson, accused of sabotaging Governor Pearson...
...Governor Pearson he wrote: "The current investigation of the Virgin Islands has developed no facts that reflect upon your honesty, or integrity, or devotion to duty...
...Judge Wilson the President wrote: ''The current inquiry into conditions in the Virgin Islands has developed no fact that reflects upon the honesty, integrity or devotion with which you have performed your duties...
...addition to whitewashing Judge Wilson, you prejudge as guilty 'some other people' in the Virgin Islands. . . . You have condemned them without a hearing on hearsay, opinion and perjured evidence...
...Virgin Islands squabble had now been inflated to the point where it required direct intervention by the President of the U. S. Insignificant was the actual issue beside the major intra-Administration battle it had provoked. At Secretary Ickes' throat were not merely Senators Tydings and Pat Harrison, patron of T. Webber Wilson, but the entire Senate afire with stored-up resentment at the Secretary's blunt, tactless refusal to play political ball. Likewise ranged against their fellow Cabinet officer were "Generals" Farley and Cummings. But the dogged little Secretary of the Interior stood undaunted against the field...