Word: whitings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
Responsive to White House proddings. District of Columbia officials last week strove manfully to make the capital the model dry city of the land. A month had passed since Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska had gladdened President Hoover by "raising the question" of the President's direct responsibility for law enforcement in the District of Columbia, where he is the chief municipal official (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week's developments in Washington's dry war included...
...House of Commons had assembled from Autumn recess in advance of his arrival (see below) eager to hear his official version of the White House talks. But the Prime Minister decided to slip off for a few days to "Chequers," country residence of British prime ministers. Rumor was that a rough sea passage on the little liner Duchess of York had kept him from writing his speech. His own sturdy story was: "We had what I call a good Englishman's passage. There were four rough days, but we arrived. I did not miss a single meal...
...Britain's most British news organ. After warmly praising the Prime Minister for "sweeping away old resentments" between Britain and the U. S. the London Times went on to explain: "The idea of a Labor Prime Minister makes an irresistible appeal to the 'log cabin to the White House' sentiment of the Americans. He is not regarded with the wary distrust with which the American public regards British diplomatists and statesmen of what is called the old school...
...ornate person is the Vice-Chamberlain of Great Britain. He helps with the domestic accounts of the Royal Household, carries a long white wand on formal occasions, wears a symbolic golden key, presents to the King-Emperor a daily account of the doings of Parliament while it is in session. Present Vice-Chamberlain of Britain is burly Jack Hayes, Laborite, one-time heavyweight boxer, onetime metropolitan policeman. More than most Laborite factotums of the Court he is irked by his gaudy trappings. Occasionally he rebels. Last month an oil tanker hove back to England's shore from a Mediterranean...