Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Grace Goodhue Coolidge, wife of the President, is universally well spoken of and liked. She is a college woman (University of Vermont), as was Mrs. Cleveland before her. As the wife of the Vice President her entertaining was not extensive or magnificent, but she was known as a gracious hostess. She made an exceptional number of friends, and has a remarkable memory for faces and names...
Piloted by Edward Stinson, a pioneer aviator, with Charles Dickinson and Arthur Gray of the Aero Club of Illinois as passengers, a Junker metal monoplane made an all-night non-stop fight from Chicago to Mitchel Field, L. I. Flying steadily at 100 miles an hour, by moonlight to Cleveland, in total darkness thereafter, the plane completed the journey in eight and a half hours without the shadow of a mishap. This is a forerunner of the aerial sleeper. The 20th Century Limited serves the business man at present better than an airplane flying only by day, but to make...
...light of the moon Nicholas Morris of San Antonio, Texas, teed off at 12.40 a.m. to break the golf marathon record (257 holes) set a month ago by Rudolph Supan, of Cleveland. Morris quit at 7.50 that night after having traversed 290 holes (more than 16 full 18-hole rounds). He averaged 85 shots a round...
...Baltimore and Cleveland are the most likely contenders for the Demo-cratic Convention, the former because of the fact that Maryland has no active candidate for the Presidency and because it was from Baltimore in 1912 that the last Democratic nominee was successful in getting to the White House. The advantages of Cleveland are of course that it is a Mid-Western city and is in President Harding's home state, where the Democrats are 'as anxious as possible to develop publicity and prestige."? David Lawrence, political prognosticator...
Born to great wealth and high social position, Mr. Van Alen created many sensations in his long, hectic career. He was educated at Oxford; married Emily, daughter of William Astor, who died six years after the marriage; was made U. S. Ambassador to Italy by President Cleveland in 1893, but was soon forced to resign when it was discovered that he had contributed $50,000 to Cleveland's campaign...