Word: come
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This was the salute of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh to President Calvin Coolidge. Flying from Pierre, S. Dak., to Cheyenne, Wyo., Colonel Lindbergh had come to drop a card to the President. The card was an engraved announcement that he was touring the country to promote commercial aviation. It was signed, in pencil scrawl, "Charles A. Lindbergh...
...board, Mr. McAndrew rehearsed his teacher-clerk testimony and his conception of his duty so clearly, that the ouster vote was tied at 5 to 5. President Coath was obliged to perform a clumsy coup de grace with his deciding vote to make the Thompson campaign promise seem to come true...
...promise did not actually come true because Mr. McAndrew, though suspended, has yet to be tried. And none is more eager for his trial than himself. He will be defended by Lawyer Angus Roy Shannon, author of the Illinois law under which the Chicago school system operates. His defense will set forth that the intention of the law was to make the superintendent of Chicago's schools, not a "hired man" of Chicago's school board, but an executive which the board is required to appoint, drawing an independent authority from the same source that created the school...
...first few minutes the film works up to a climax when bulky Jean Valjean (Gabriel Gabrio) on the point of murdering his benefactor in bed, finds his dagger has been turned powerless by kindness. Thereafter, come only a series of episodes, each of decreasing inten- sity, showing Valjean's achievements punctuated again and again by the fateful Javert...
...over building costs will yield $52,974.70 per annum, or $17,658.23 per temple, or more than five times the annual expenses of each of the 44 present Westover churches. Big Dan explains that preachers, powerless under denominationalism ("in the grip of this great un-Christian machine"), will gladly come to the temples. The Westover elders hope so. A temple rises, not without denominational dirty work...