Word: callers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wickham Steed, British editor, a White House caller of last fortnight, left with President Coolidge a world peace plan involving boycott by the U. S. of the aggressor nation in any war. After study, President Coolidge indicated that he viewed with alarm even passive U. S. participation in foreign wars...
...exceptionally affable-save for a moment here & there (see "FESS INCIDENT")-and unwontedly loquacious-except at times such as when onetime (1919-21) Governor Henry J. Allen of Kansas talked at length about the necessity of President Coolidge's renomination. The President's sole reply to his caller's long speech was: "How's crops...
...caller next morning left on a White House table some large fans illuminated with the President's portrait and the bold lettering: "Choose Coolidge." ( A White House houseguest of the week was Dwight Whitney Morrow, who required little entertaining so busy was he calling around in officialdom to learn all he could about his new post of U. S. Ambassador to Mexico. Mr. Morrow took his oath, talked much with the President, heard that he was praised when his predecessor, James Rockwell Sheffield, called on his host...
...accomplished caller of Albert has become marked among women, and it is gratifying to reflect that the patient Albert is due to have his name immortalized in return. It is inconceivable that, even with all her genius, his spouse could have risen to such proficiency unless she had had him to practice on. In what manner he provided occasion for his wife to exercise her vocal gifts will probably never be known; his efforts, or his misfortunes, will remain as one more quiet sacrifice to progress. It is enough to know that he has been true to his calling...
...days after that, President Coolidge told a White House caller, who had just returned from South America, that he could imagine and had long considered the state of Maine and the Republic of Chili being joined some day by a monumental motor highway, which would unite North and South America commercially, socially...