Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Callers upon the President were: President Gerardo Machado of Cuba (see col. 3); Charles Beecher Warren, onetime U. S. Ambassador to Mexico; Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, who in return dined President and Mrs. Coolidge on their yacht Lyndonia; Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston, who came for a stay of several weeks; Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Italian air ace, to whom Mr. Coolidge expressed his regrets over the recent burning of Signer de Pinedo's plane (TIME, April 18); J. Ramsay Macdonald, onetime British premier, who was accompanied by his daughter Ishbel...
...conditions essential to a stable existence." Next Step. President Coolidge having, as everyone expected, upheld Governor General Wood in vetoing the plebiscite, the next step is for the U. S. Congress to grant certain governmental and economic reforms which will soothe the independence agitation. These reforms were suggested in Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report (TIME, Jan. 3)-which, among other things, hinted that Governor General Wood's "cavalry cabinet" is the storm centre of Filipino dissatisfaction. (The "cavalry cabinet" is a group of Army officers who act as advisors and administrators for the Governor General...
...Manhattan, last week, a divorce suit began which might never have received publicity had not two of the principals, mustachioed Col. Edward C. Carrington (onetime campaign manager for Theodore Roosevelt) and his brother, Campbell Carrington, battled violently with canes on Park Ave. Colonel Carrington accused his wife and brother of adultery...
...hand in Dr. Frederick B. Robinson, dean of the business school, who had already directed the evening sessions and even acted in President Mezes' place during his absence. The big institution (enrollment 10,341) hailed Dr. Robinson as its first alumnus-president. Dr. Mezes, brother-in-law of Col. E. M. House, went to City College from his presidential chair at the University of Texas...
...messiah once employed the alias "Shaw," and there were those who hoped and whispered that he had been born beneath a Shavian rose. Today, however, weighty British reference works have pinned down this elusive youth with the finality of taxidermists transfixing a butterfly. His name shall be henceforth Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, his birth date Aug. 15, 1888, his land of origin Wales; and if the taxidermists have made a mistake, the joke is still very much upon the butterfly...