Word: absenting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...down to breakfast in the White House dining room. They were: Colonel Coolidge, the President's father, who chatted with Mrs. Goodhue, the mother-in-law; Dr. Olds, President of Amherst; Miss Laura Skinner of Manhattan; Mrs. R. M. Hills of Northampton; Mrs. Frank W. Stearns. Mr. Stearns was absent. He had gone to the Union Station to meet John Coolidge, the President's son, who was due on a 7:30 train. The President ate in silence, wondering where the boy was. Before breakfast was finished, Mr. Stearns returned, reported the train an hour late. When John arrived some...
...that which his predecessor had had. Since there had been no Vice President for 18 months, Mr. Cummins presided during that time and drew the Vice President's salary perquisites (notably an automobile and an office in the Capitol). Mr. Moses will preside only when Mr. Dawes is absent from the Chamber and draw only his normal salary...
...have learned to like, even more than I did before, those who have been in sympathy with me and those with whom I have had occasional quarrels, including those gentlemen whom I hope are only temporarily absent from the Republican Party...
...them to catch smugglers of jewelry and other valuables.* An amendment was attached on the floor to increase the salary of the President's Secretary from $7,500 to $10,000. Representative Sanders of Indiana, who was to become the President's Secretary on Mar. 4, was absent at the time. Later, he protested and the amendment was removed at the last minute. (Went to Senate...
...that nothing definite has yet been determined. "The quake was extraordinary," he declared, "both for its strength and the wide area of disturbance. The center seems to have been about 100 miles distant from Boston either to the cast or west." Professor J. B. Woodworth, the University seismologist, is absent on sabbatical leave in Florida and hence cannot read the record of the seismograph. The cylinder has therefore been shellacked, and will be sent to Washington for study...