Word: cols
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...press last week were released photographs of the portrait of President Coolidge painted by Frank O. Salisbury during the President's holiday at Sapeloe Island. Friends thought it was good, except that Calvin Coolidge never held his head as imperiously as that (see col. 2), and it makes him a lot younger, firmer-fleshed, cleaner cut, than he really looks. That, however, may be what a good portrait should do. Furthermore, as the late John Singer Sargent once said: "A portrait is a picture in which something-is-wrong-with-the-eyes...
...federal aid. At Palm Beach he was feted at the Bath and Tennis Club. At Fort Lauderdale, 3,000 excited children mobbed him, swept him two blocks from his car. ¶At Brighton, Fla., Mr. Hoover lunched with Glenn H. Curtiss, aviation pioneer. He remarked to his host that Col. Lindbergh should fly no more, lest he be killed by the law of aviation averages. The Pan-American Airways, Inc., Mr. Hoover suggested, should give him a good safe ground job. Mr. Curtiss, a-twinkle, replied that the situation would probably be met, in view of press reports that...
...lawyer for Col. Stewart, Mr. Hogan replied to Mr. Aldrich's announcement of Rockefeller proxies with a sophistry. Said he: "If, therefore, Mr. Rockefeller's associates should succeed, it will mean that numerical strength in shares will thwart the wishes of the overwhelming majority of stockholders...
...true that Col. Stewart claimed the support of a majority of Standard Oil of Indiana stockholders. But it is also true that the application of Mr. Hogan's reasoning would cause all U. S. business to totter, to go into a panic. It would mean that, in any corporation, the holder of one share would be as powerful as the holder of 10,000 shares...
Round 20. In this round several thousand words were hurled. Mr. Aldrich mailed to stockholders a 69-page pamphlet summing up Mr. Rockefeller Jr.'s objections to Col. Stewart and reviewing in great detail the Stewart conduct for the past seven years. Col. Stewart immediately flayed the Aldrich pamphlet as "a cunningly drawn document . . . nothing less than cowardly and dastardly libel...