Word: worke
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Guest at the White House all week was Hubert Work M. D., being eased out of the Chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. His visit was interpreted as a parting token of the President's esteem. That his resignation, announced as "due to ill health," left him under no misapprehension, he showed by saying...
...Work Done. Last week the Senate...
...Sunday night, on the eve of the meeting of the Republican National Committee President & Mrs. Hoover entertained potent Republican politicians: Colonel & Mrs. Rentfro Banton Creager of Texas (see p. 48), Louis Kroh Liggett of Massa- chusetts, Dr. Work...
...Europe by championing the Geneva Protocol (intended to "put teeth into the Covenant of the League"), he declared that "since 1924 we have started upon another road. The [Kellogg-Briand] Pact of Peace has been signed at Paris, and that pact is now the starting point of further work. ... To a certain extent the pact is still a castle in the air and the Assembly of the League is going to build up the foundations to support this castle. . . . The British Government is desirous that that pact shall be not only a declaration on paper but shall be translated into...
Repeatedly Mr. MacDonald told correspondents last week that he expected shortly to announce complete agreement with Ambassador Dawes, but in Washington the Administration distinctly cooled, and Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson snappishly observed: "It will still require a considerable period of hard work before an agreement ... is reached." An impression lingered that the Prime Minister had embarrassed the President by flaunting the fact that at the Five-Power Naval Conference (of which Mr. Hoover approves) it may happen that the whole Anglo-U. S. naval accord will be thrown into just the sort of European squabbling-pot so distasteful...