Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trouble came to a head following the Cleveland Convention. But the Convention was only its immediate cause. Its ultimate cause lay further back, in the selection by Mr. Coolidge of his political advisers. At the beginning, the President had Frank W. Stearns, Boston business man, whose hobby is politics. Next, the President chose C. Bascom Slemp as his Secretary. Slemp is a man whose element is politics. His assistance was as necessary to the newly-made President as the assistance of a social secretary is to a newly-rich woman. With the approach of the pre-Convention campaign, Mr. Coolidge...
...opinions but obviously had bungled in part. On top of this an editorial appeared in The Washington Post ?believed to be from the acrid pen of George Harvey?in which it was intimated that one member of the Presi- dent's official family would resign because of the Cleveland affair. That member was Secretary Slemp...
...town of Marietta, Ohio, is situated Marietta College. There last week the class of 1884 was holding its 40th reunion. Naturally since a big Convention was going on at Cleveland, there was some listening in by radio. Several members of '84 were at it. After a hot roll-call, the Republican nominee for Vice President was announced. It was one of those very Marietta '84s who were listening in. And he exclaimed picturesquely: "Well, I declare...
...applied under the rib. At operation the swollen nerve ending and the tip of the rib may be removed, and in a correctly diagnosed and properly treated case, the cure of the pain is immediate and permanent. Thyroid gland. In the surgical section also, Dr. George W. Crile, Cleveland, discussed the present standing of knowledge of the thyroid gland. The abnormal conditions for which physicians are called include increased secretion from the gland, lessened secretion and abnormal growths. In the case of lessened secretion physicians treat the condition by giving small doses of iodin during youth or during periods such...
Colonel John C. Coolidge, father of the President: "It was reported I sent to the Republican National Committee the following telegram in response to an invitation to be present at the Cleveland Convention: 'Telegram received. Thanks. I cannot see my way clear to go to the Convention.' Newspapers pointed out that this message was a few words longer than one which I wired to a Dinner Committee in Massachusetts that was engaged in promoting my son from Lieutenant Governor to Governor. In that message I said: 'Gentlemen: Can't come. Thank you.' " Luis Angel Firpo...