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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Graham Everson was Adjutant-General of the Indiana National Guard as well as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind., when President Hoover appointed him to succeed Major-General Creed C. Hammond. In Washington Preacher Everson became a full-fledged Major-General of the Regular Army (pay and allowances: $9,700). His job: to administer the $27,000,000 per year the U. S. provides to help maintain guard units; to supply them with U. S. equipment, regular Army officers for training; to keep them up to Regular Army standards...
...District Attorney, he prosecuted some minor ramifications of the oil scandals (TIME, March 12, 1928). No man to let past favors interfere with the course of justice, Judge Gordon found the three newsgatherers in contempt, sentenced them to 45 days in jail, denied them bond. The Times prepared to pay them double salaries during their imprisonment. Its lawyers the next day secured their release on a writ of habeas corpus from Justice Frederick Lincoln Siddons...
...Continue to pay janitors' salaries to college professors and you must be prepared to expect your children to receive teaching upon a level which will fit them to be janitors...
...right, Your Worship," said he. "Mrs. Cratchitt and I, we've forgotten our little differences. I've arranged to pay all her debts. As a matter of fact, I've done pretty well. For 30 years I've had a cat's meat round in the City, and if I do say so I'm a man of independent means...
Sturdily Miss Ishbel MacDonald refused to speak or write for pay while her Prime Minister father was the guest of President Herbert Hoover (TIME, Oct. 14, 21). But safe back in England last week, the Scotch lassie put by a tidy bit for three articles sold to the New York Evening Post. Like Ishbel's eyes, the articles sparkled yet were thoughtful. They answered the question: "What does Ishbel MacDonald think about...