Word: ending
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Coolidge designated it as his choice for a hot-weather week-end retreat for future Presidents of the U. S. He asked Congress for $48,000 to remodel it. It would not be a Summer White House, to which the President would move for a long stay. It would simply be a week-end retreat, an escape from the sticky heat of the low Potomac Valley...
Brule. The vacation at Brule, Wis., was the happiest of all. The choose had finally been accepted. Hoover was nominated. There were fish, lots of them, to be caught. President Coolidge could and did say to news-cameramen: "Mr. Hoover won't carry on his end of the conversation...
...elder Lindbergh, it is true, was never satisfied that any change had come in the manner and method of large banking houses. To the end he saw them only as "accursed burdens upon the plain people." In 1923, in The Economic Pinch, he wrote...
...electricity he finds a great life force. This he chooses to worship. But then, again, he finds that he is bowing before something that is unexplained. He sacrifices his earthly love to it but is unappeased. In the end he gives himself to this new deity, the dynamo, only to be thrown back lifeless, so far as this world is concerned. Or has he just begun to live? O'Neill begs the question with his final curtain...
...dictatorship may end tomorrow, or one knows not when. I believe that its end is nearer now than it has ever been. Finally, all depends upon King Alfonso. As long as the King supports de Rivera, he will remain in power. But the moment when the King refuses to support him further, the dictator will be doomed and the regime will fall. It is to be doubted whether the King can afford to support him much longer...