Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Leviathan. London barbers grumbled about "foreign labor." When Barber Arico reached London, he found the Kenny hair (see cut) had already been submitted to local shears. Mr. Kenny explained he wanted to give his old friend a vacation. Remarked the London Ex press: "The acquisition of millions tends to make...
¶ Back in Washington one morning before breakfast the President greeted Secretary of State Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Adams, and six Admirals?all of whom sat down to eat, to talk about naval reductions. Next day the President sent a new note (contents secret) to England about cruisers.
At Mrs. Coolidge's elbow, Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams in a stiff white collar, holding his white straw hat aloft with a gesture of dignified salutation, watched the new hull slide slowly down to the wet sea. The representative of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee saw nothing?...
¶ In the State Prison at Windsor, Ontario, Clarence Adams played dead by self-hypnotism, a friend "embalmed" him, accomplices outside got the coffin, released him.
Secretary Adams was sympathetic to the offer but without authority to accept it. He hoped that Congress and the President would approve the conversion of the Olympia from a rust-sploshed hulk to a well-polished national memorial.