Word: dak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vacation has made him even more interested in the plane's future. He has seen the efficiency of the air mail. The pet collie dog recently (TIME, Aug. 1) presented to him made the trip from Detroit by airplane. There is a plane at Custer State Park, S. Dak., ready to rush the President to Washington in any emergency. So, remote from centres of population, the President has more than ever realized the airplane as a factor in decreasing distance...
...Custer, S. Dak., went the President and Mrs. Coolidge, saw there a pageant representing scenes in Black Hills history from the time when the Great Spirit set aside the region as a place of particular beauty and sanctity. The most spectacular part of the spectacle was not on the program, but came when two horses scheduled to stage a runaway from a covered wagon attacked by Indians ran in earnest and evaded cowboys posted to round them up. Toward the packed crowd surrounding the field galloped the horses. Mrs. Coolidge covered her face with her hands...
Members of the Rotary Club of Rapid City, S. Dak., took luncheon seats one day last week, waited expectantly for onetime Governor Samuel McKelvie of Nebraska to address them on the topic of the beauty of the Black Hills. But Mr. McKelvie gave no beauty talk. Instead, he assailed onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois for telling farmers that such federal organizations as the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Banks were examples of what the government might, if so inclined, do for farmers. Mr. McKelvie was grieved to think that Mr. Lowden had supposed that...
...Springs, S. Dak...
...snip, snip, snip!" The President was having his hair cut. Not unduly selfconscious, the President had the operation performed on the State Lodge porch while, despatches reported, "many tourists stopped to gaze at the sight." ¶ Prudence Prim, pet white collie of Mrs. Coolidge, died at Fort Meade, S. Dak. Cause: Distemper with complications. ¶Inasmuch as President Coolidge usually does not attend meetings at which a Democrat is the principal speaker, his ears must last week have heard strange sounds and subversive doctrine. For, attending a farmers' meeting at Ardmore, S. Dak., the President listened while Democratic Governor...