Word: dak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ought to want to be President of the United States, but when he develops and finds his real work that work may be even more important than being President. . . ." The speechmaker was Gutzon Borglum, the sculptor;* the occasion was the dedication of a Boy Scout camp near Custer, S. Dak. The President was informed that its name would be Camp Coolidge...
...Farmers in Newell, S. Dak., gave President Coolidge one small gold irrigation shovel, two sheep, then offered to give him a farm of 160 acres on condition that he would settle thereon with sheep and shovel. Said the President: "These presents round out just what I need to be a farmer in South Dakota. ... I have been presented with a fine saddle horse and accoutrements. ... I am the possessor of a herd of cattle...
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...
Elections. To succeed President Whitman, the Association unanimously elected Silas Hardy Strawn, potent Chicago corporation lawyer, lately a presidential emissary to war-tangled China. Secretary Mac-Cracken and Treasurer John H. Voorhees of Sioux Falls, S. Dak., were reelected...
...object of a request by Vice Admiral Josiah Slutts McKean, U. S. N., to the Los Angeles district attorney, to prosecute "this woman" for adopting for herself and followers evangelical uniforms resembling those of U. S. Navy officers. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, flying from Denver to Pierre, S. Dak., described a circle over Greeley, Col., and passed out of sight. Soon Greeleyites saw a speck returning, wondered if it might be Colonel Lindbergh, again, saw it as a bird which, after it, too, had circled Greeley, was described by an Associated Press correspondent as a "giant" golden eagle...