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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator Charles Winfield Waterman of Colorado to introduce Ethel Pugh, aged 12, author of an essay on safety which won first prize in a national contest held by the Highway Education Board...
...read from the 46th Psalm "Therefore we will not fear....though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled." They voted an$8,500,000 $8,500,000 bond issue to restore highways and bridges; authorized the Emergency Board to borrow $1,500,000 for other relief measures; voted to loan the St.Johnsbury & Lake Champlain R. R. $300,000 from State funds; expressed their sorrow at the death of Lieutenant-Governor S. Hollister Jackson, drowned at Barre...
...week such mistaken impressions were given the lie when Senor Calles proved himself not only supple of body but adept at mellow geniality. Scene: the $375,000 private train of the President of Mexico which puffed all week, from one hospitable ranch in northern Mexican states to another. On board were the new U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Dwight Whitney Morrow (onetime Morgan partner), and tart-witted cowboy-clown Will Rogers. They, and other guests of the President, were privileged to see him in playful mood. At Pabellon Ranch, State of Aguascalientes, Senor Calles seated his guests around a bull...
...onetime champion pugilist) ever play poker at the White House? Certainly not. Last week Col. Charles R. Forbes, head of the Veterans' Bureau (see p. 18), described a poker party held in the White House library in 1921. The players were President Harding, Will H. Hays, Albert Lasker (shipping board chairman), Harry Daugherty (Attorney General), Harry S. New (Postmaster General), Edward B. ("Ned") McLean (publisher of the Washington Post) and Mrs. McLean...
Every year, along with the board-walks in the Yard and the muddy snow on Massachusetts Avenue, at just about this season when education begins to pall before the prospect of vacation, comes the first of the series known more or less familiarly as the Whiting concerts. To entitle them more exactly, they are "Expositions of Classical and Modern Chamber Music", given by the Music Department in the John Knowles Paine Hall in the Music Building, under the direction of Mr. Arthur Whiting, who himself takes the place before the harpsichord or pianoforte as the case...