Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the battlefield departed Republican Chief of Staff Watson of Indiana, worn to a frazzle by the tariff fray. His physician had ordered a three-week "rest" in Florida. Gossipers spoke of the failure of his leadership, predicted that Brigadier Charles McNary of Oregon would soon be advanced to Chief of Staff. So feeble became the tariff fighting that Democratic Chief of Staff Robinson also went off, for a fortnight's holiday in Arkansas. Combat came to a farcical standstill on Saturday when brigadier generals deserted wholesale. General Edge went to New Jersey, preventing action on his earthenware schedules...
...superintendents of the country's two service academies?Rear-Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison and Major-General William Ruthven Smith?journeyed to Washington last week. They went separately but in parallel frames of mind. A meeting between them had been quietly suggested by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy, President Hoover. The dignitaries obeyed the unwritten order but did not greatly relish the matter in hand...
Undismayed were National Guardsmen throughout the land last week when a six-foot Baptist clergyman eased his big frame down to the desk of Chief of the Militia Bureau in the War Department at Washington. Well did militiamen know that this new Federal director of their organizations in 48 states has long been leading a double life: that he is as much a soldier, seasoned in hard service, as he is a preacher potent in the pulpit...
Heavily in debt last week was Albert Bacon Fall, bribe-taking Secretary of the Interior under President Harding, first convicted Cabinet felon in U. S. history. He still owed Oilman Edward Laurence Doheny $100,000 (exclusive of interest) on what he still insists was "a friendly loan" made eight years ago. He owed the U. S. another $100,000-the fine imposed last week after a District of Columbia Supreme Court jury had found the Doheny "loan" corrupt, a bribe. Additional debt to the U. S.: one year of his life in prison. Mr. Fall's assets, both...
Bedclothes Story. Last week Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico exploded the widely credited story of Fall's visit, as a Senator in 1919, to the White House bedside of Woodrow Wilson (TIME, Oct. 21). Gilbert Monell Hitchcock of Nebraska was another Senator who accompanied Fall to determine President Wilson's condition. Last week he assured Senator Cutting that Fall did not, as history has said, rudely snatch the bedclothes off the ill President to inspect him. Said Mr. Hitchcock: "Fall, who supposed President Wilson's right arm was paralyzed, was amazed when the President held...