Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus, he fed loaves of bread to the elephants and said: "Mr. Ringling-John-you have proven yourself a public benefactor of the highest possible type." At Miami Beach, behind a speeding motorcycle escort he passed within sight of Belle Isle where President-Elect Hoover was sunning, but did not immediately visit. He played golf, went swimming, established himself in two suites at the Miami-Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. Meanwhile, Republican newspaper editors were flaying with indignation a statement made by Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt that the reaction to Mr. Smith's defeat...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge were host and hostess at their last state dinner, in honor of Speaker of the House & Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.* Among the 60 guests were Senator and Mrs. Robinson of Arkansas, Vice President-Elect Curtis, Governor Byrd of Virginia, Dr. Hubert Work, Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler of Manhattan. At 10 o'clock came 100 additional guests. Mrs. Ruth Townsend-Petrovich sang; Rudolph Ganz played the piano...
...Vice President-Elect Curtis leased, last week, the ten-room Vice-Presidential suite in Washington's Mayflower Hotel. Mr. Curtis's sister, Mrs. Edward E. Gann, and her husband, for 20 years a Washington lawyer, will make their home with Mr. Curtis. Since Mr. Curtis is a widower, Mrs. Gann will receive at Vice-Presidential social functions...
...directorship meant no immediate labor for Mr. Smith. Like President-Elect Hoover, he departed for a southern vacation. His itinerary called for visits with friend Carl Espy in Savannah, Ga., potato Tycoon Frank W. Nix in St. Augustine, Fla., Circusman John Ringling in Sarasota, Fla. Most of the six weeks he will spend near Miami. Asked if he intended to call on Mr. Hoover, Mr. Smith said: "That will be news when...
...minute or two; then wearily he sat down. When Commissioner Hay returned, even the most phlegmatic councilman could spot him as a bearer of bad tidings. From London had come a trunk call. Gen. Booth had gone to law, obtaining a temporary injunction which forbade the council to elect a successor to his deposed self...