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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...saving is to the Government since cost is paid out of the President's expense account.) Comment: 1) "Good example of economy." 2) "False economy; public travel too dangerous." ¶ In Chicago the President telephoned and asked the health of General Charles G. Dawes. At luncheon in the Drake Hotel he spoke to the Commercial Club saying: "We cannot hope indefinitely to maintain our country as a specially favored community, an isle of contentment lifted above the general level of the average standards of humanity." After luncheon the President attended ceremonies commemorating the 250th anniversary of the day when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Dec. 15, 1924 | 12/15/1924 | See Source »

Missouri Valley results were: Nebraska 24, Kansas Aggies 0; Haskell Indians 20, Butler 7; Iowa State 10, Drake 0. Drake's defeat, her first, left the Missouri Valley championship to be decided between Missouri and Nebraska by the Missouri-Kansas game this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Football: Dec. 1, 1924 | 12/1/1924 | See Source »

Among the most interesting publications will be reprints of two seventeenth century pamphlets, which have recently been found in the Lincoln Cathedral Library. "The Pilgrimage of Robert Langton" is the name of the first, while the second is "A most Friendly Farewell to Sir Francis Drake," by Henry Robarts. These editions will be limited to 755 copies apiece...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY PRESS GIVES OUT NEW LIST OF BOOKS | 10/7/1924 | See Source »

Engaged. Frances Orren Lowden, third daughter of former Governor of Illinois Frank O. Lowden, of Oregon, Ill., to John B. Drake, Jr., kin of Tracy C. Drake, Chicago hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 1, 1924 | 9/1/1924 | See Source »

Famed among many famed young men at the Drake Relays, Iowa, was Charlie Paddock of Pasadena . In a downpour of rain, racing against three University of Iowa freshmen, he ran 100 yards in 93/5 seconds, unofficially equalling the world's record. True, he beat the gun by a fraction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Paddock | 5/5/1924 | See Source »

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