Word: whitely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the meeting was over, from the White House came an anonymous, ominous comment: "highly unusual...
What made the conference unusual was that it apparently violated an ancient custom that all diplomatic matters be conducted by foreign envoys at the U. S. State Department or the White House, not with the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations or any other non-state person. Since Sir Esme is dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the prospect was presented of lesser Ambassadors and Ministers flocking to Capitol Hill to confer with lesser Senators. This prospect recalled the trouble of 1793 when Citizen Genet, as Republican France's first Minister to the U. S., attempted to make...
Senator Borah and Sir Esme were uneasy over the reported White House criticism until Statesman Stimson soothed their feelings with a public statement to the effect that their conference, informal, personal, had been quite "proper...
Tears rolled down the rugged Warren cheeks and were frankly wiped away by a large white handkerchief as the Senate rose en masse to applaud unstintedly its laconic patriarch...
Just before one daybreak a mahogany-colored rumrunner with a wide white stripe just above the water line shot out from the shadowy Canadian shore. Within 100 feet of a Detroit dock it was intercepted by U. S. Customs Speedboat 1401, patrolling the waterfront. Without warning a man in the bow of the rumrunner opened revolver fire on the two customs men in No. 1401. Sharply the U. S. agents returned the fire, forced the rumrunner to veer about, retreat toward the international line. No. 1401 gave chase up along Belle Isle under a peppery rain of bullets. Its windshield...