Word: answers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Coolidge sent an answer to Wyoming, in a certain way. He told his secretary what to say, and let the secretary sign the letter. This procedure, after "I do not choose" (August) and "My wishes will be respected" (December), seemed intended to show that the Everlasting Nay had now become a matter of office routine. Secretary Sanders wrote: "The President directs me to say that he must decline to grant the request of the committee...
...Passed a resolution ordering the arrest of Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, friend of Senator-suspect Vare, for refusal to answer questions on campaign funds...
Artillery roared one day last week around the mud-banks that embrace Kowloon Bay, in answer to a saluting salvo from the U. S. S. Pittsburgh, steaming in. It was Diplomat-Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, commander of U. S. naval forces in the Far East, arriving to pay Hongkong the first visit of his current assignment. After a week in British Hongkong, he meant to proceed 100 miles up the Canton River to Canton to investigate the South China "situation." At the proper moment, Hongkong's Governor, Sir Cecil Clementi, entertained Admiral Bristol & aides with a state dinner. Admiral...
What's wrong? The answer can probably be found in the New Englander's reticence to ballyhoo himself and his community. He has been quietly going about his business for two centuries. His industrialism, deeprooted, has grown like an oak and not like a mushroom...
...newspapers? One answer was given last week by one Dr. Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton, professor of psychology at Temple University, Philadelphia. Said...