Word: watching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have arranged a suit against the Watch and Ward Society and against the agents who sell my magazines to the news dealers. I intend that the suits shall establish the principles upon which Chase shall be permitted to operate in the future, or I intend that he shall be shown to have no ground to stand on. If he wins, I shall at least have the satisfaction of the knowledge that his activities are opened to public gaze...
...arrest of Felix Canigianes assumed national proportions yesterday when H. L. Mencken, the editor of the American Mercury, forced J. Frank Chase, secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, to secure his arrest. Mencken sold Chase a copy of the April number of the Mercury at the corner of Park and Tremont Streets at 2 o'clock...
That no such spirit does thrive here was certainly obvious yesterday when the Watch and Ward Society under the gallant leadership of the Reverend Frank Chase amused some and irritated others who were spending the noon hour in or near the Park Street Church. For no one can name any city the Athens of America where as delightful a demagogue as Mr. Mencken is forbidden freedom...
Other forms of excitement came later. He traveled to the ends of the earth. He elected his brother District Attorney. He went to Russia as confidential secretary to the U. S. Ambassador, and ran away from the Embassy to watch the Russians fight the Germans. But excitement, for him, had to be balanced by achievement. So he accepted from President Wilson the job of Director of the Mint, and served into the Harding Administration...
...runners off the U. S. Before her stretched a season of snooping af-ter icebergs. On April 15 she, or her alternate iceberg scout, the Modoc, will heave to at latitude 41° 46' north, longitude 50° 14' west. Her crew, except for the ever present watch in crow's-nest and bridge, will fire three volleys, will moan "taps" in lament for the sinking of the Titanic on that spot 14 years before...