Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Kansan White said, in his Emporia. Kan. Gazette, that Kansas "hereby tells the whole world that there will be a real ruckus if Washington don't do right by our Doll...
...Unless she is borne to the dinner [for James Ramsay MacDonald at the White House] triumphant on the shoulders of Mrs. Nick Longworth and seated in the center of the table as a centerpiece with a silver candelabra in both hands and fed her soup with a long handled spoon by the wife of the Secretary of State, Kansas won't be responsible for what her presidential electors do in 1932. Verbum...
...lobby excitements -William Baldwin Shearer, "AMERICAN, CHRISTIAN, PROTESTANT, NATIONALIST," the high-powered propagandist who is suing the Bethlehem, American Brown Boveri and Newport News shipbuilding companies for $257,655 back pay for alleged services in breaking up the naval arms conference at Geneva in 1927 and boosting the Jones-White Act (ship subsidies) last year (TIME, Sept. 2 et seq.}. Company officials had testified they did hire Shearer, in admitted folly. Now the Senators had to hear Shearer. Between his gusts of anger and invective they learned he had been a prizefight, cabaret and theatre promoter; an actor playing...
Without naming names, Mr. McCarl cited instances to show how great were the sacrifices, how shocking the business management, in some of the corporation's white elephant sales in 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925. For example...
...Mitchell to discover whether there had been any violation of the law. The President was careful to point out that all the instances cited were "prior to this Administration." As many citizens recall, President Coolidge was constantly prodding the U. S. Shipping Board to get rid of this floating white elephants...