Word: aug
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Promptly at noon, Aug. 2, newspapermen, at the President's behest, entered his schoolroom office. Everett Sanders, his secretary, closed the door, stood guard-like. The President was smoking a cigar held in an ivory holder. He did not smile as usual, but solemnly inquired: "Is everyone 'here now?" and directed his professional visitors to file past him. As they did so, he handed each one a slip on which, a few minutes previously, Typist Gsioer had imprinted the 10 words "I do not choose to run for President...
More the President would not say. It happened to be the fourth anniversary of the death of Warren Gamaliel Harding of Marion, Ohio, 29th U. S. President. And at 2 A. M. Aug. 3, four years ago, aged John C. Coolidge, slipperless, came down the stairs of his cottage at Plymouth Notch, Vermont, to swear in his son, Calvin, as 30th U. S. President. When President Coolidge's present term expires, he will have held supreme office for five years, seven months...
Newspaper correspondents were inclined to believe that Mr. McKelvie had become something in the nature of a White House spokesman. Last fortnight (TIME, Aug. 1) the President visited the McKelvie camp at Mystic, S. Dak., the only private invitation which President Coolidge has accepted. Mr. & Mrs. McKelvie were also the first overnight guests at the State Lodge. Also, Mr. McKelvie had been at the President's South Dakota Executive Office just before making his speech and was reported to have gone over it with Everett Sanders, Secretary to the President. Thus reporters, logical, deductive, concluded that he had officially . opened...
...substitution made a very considerable difference in the nature of the speech delivered, for Mr. Pinchot vigorously attacked the Federal Government for entrusting flood control to Army engineers, and Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago expressed his total lack of confdence in the flood-prevention measures recently (TIME, Aug. 1) expounded by Mr. Hoover at Rapid City. Mr. Pinchot termed the Army engineers' efforts at flood-control "the most colossal engineering blunder of the human race." Mayor Thompson said that "our failure [to prevent floods] is a national humiliation." Discussing the Hoover plan (which was chiefly the expenditure...
From Calgary the Baldwins would proceed to the smart resort at Banff, Alberta; and thence return through Calgary to Winnipeg, whence they would speed through Ottawa a second time and finally board the Empress of Scotland at North Sydney on Aug...