Word: went
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President went, as custom required, to the Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial Day. By custom he delivered a speech on Peace. Contrary to custom he said something pointed. His argument: The Kellogg treaty for the renunciation of war is a "declaration" of "faith and idealism" which must be followed by "action." It must mean "all armament hereafter shall be used only for defense." But "we are still borne on the tide of competitive building. . . . Fear and suspicion . . . will never disappear until we can turn this tide toward actual reduction." He insisted on finding a "rational yardstick" for naval comparisons...
...Senator Vandenberg went the public credit of insistently driving this measure through a reluctant Senate. It was his first major activity since coming to the Senate a year ago. Born in Grand Rapids 45 years ago, at the age of 22 Senator Vandenberg became the editor-publisher of the Grand Rapids Herald, a position he held until he became a Senator. A bookish man behind large spectacles, he writes with more force than he speaks. His speeches in behalf of reapportionment in the Senate were marked with more constitutional zeal than oratorical brilliance. His chief address brimmed with these phrases...
...November 1927, Sinclair went on trial in Washington for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. in the leasing of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve. Secretly he hired a squad of 14 detectives from the agency of William J. Burns to "investigate" his jurors. Friend Day actually arranged for their employment and received their daily reports. Midway through the trial the government, through undercover men of its own, discovered Sinclair's method of shadowing justice. A mistrial was immediately declared...
...Monday about dark," he confessed, "I told him we would go down on Water Street in East Macon and lay for a liquor car. He went along all right, thinking we were going to hijack somebody...
Because he is a Roman Catholic and because it was the feast of Corpus Christi, the young Duke rose early on his birthday beautiful morning, church went of St. Philip Neri (built the by his Solemn father in 1873), and there attended solomn High Mass, heard and the there monks from Storrington intone a sonorous Te Deum. Followed, in the afternoon, a solemn procession through the wide castle grounds, and benediction services under the castle trees, with monks and nuns from neighboring convents...