Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House telephone tinkled. Secretary George Akerson answered it. His Chief was calling from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Now, said the President, it could be told: he and Prime Minister MacDonald had agreed to have the latter issue invitations to France, Italy and Japan to discuss naval reductions with Britain and the U. S. in London on Jan. 20. The invitations would go out on the morrow (see p. 27). Like most momentous news it was very simple. There was nothing more to say - yet - about the historic "conversations." So the President helped the world press...
...While Prime Minister MacDonald was at the White House, waiting in Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing retinue of secretaries, an in come of $3,000,000 per year and a family tree 900 years old, was the much-married Maharajah of Kapurthala in the Punjab, accredited representative to the League of Nations of Their Highnesses the Indian ruling princes. Precisely what he wished to discuss with President...
...erratic friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...
Last week in his cheery way Mr. White undertook to speak for Kansas in the matter of social precedence for Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, who is also Dolly Curtis Gann, sister and hostess of the Vice President...
...insignia recommended by the council would consist of red numerals on a black background to be worn on a white sweater with no letters to signify what division of the minor sports the athlete has represented. The minor sports "H" which consists of the same colors was adopted by the Student Council last year and has been adopted in many other colleges throughout the country recently...