Word: ens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...present Secretary of the Treasury departs for a vacation, it is customary to note that he looks "like a tired bookkeeper." This was said last week but with less point than usual. Mr. Andrew W. Mellon looked positively pleased with himself as he boarded the Fort St. George en route to Bermuda with his handsome daughter Ailsa, his Yale undergraduate son Paul. To see them off came "the world's most exalted bachelor," Sir Robert Home (TIME, March 29, COMMONWEALTH), onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer. Bowing, he presented a bouquet to Miss Mellon; then edged Mr. Mellon...
Since the University menu is rather devoid of manna for early rising Vagabonds, I see no reason to face the world of culture and the criticism thereof until the late hour of ten when I shall probably breakfast--not en pantouffles--at the Georgian where it is rumored there will be fresh cream for the first morning in some months and a new and lighter group of doughnuts. Having then apprized myself of various financial rises in the locality which have my Vagabond mind rather worried, I shall wend my way to Sever 35 where Dr Maynadier at eleven...
...Three gifts arrived at the White House in one day. One of them was a piece of paper representing 100,000 lb. of smiles. It came from the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks at Stockton, Calif., and was a "way bill" representing a carload of smiles. It had been indorsed en route by many railworkers. The second gift consisted of two arrowheads from Fort Minis, Ala., presented by Representative Hill of that state, one to the President, one to Mrs. Coolidge. The third was a bushel of potatoes, "large Idaho russet," sent by the Idaho Chamber of Commerce and presented...
...Jews were exiled en masse from England in 1290, from France in 1394, from Spain in 1492. They eased back into England by the tolerance of Oliver Cromwell. Spain today is toying with the idea of permitting again their legal residence...
Twenty-four hours after the order was issued, 14 Spanish priests were en route to Spain forcibly deported from Vera Cruz aboard the steamship Espagne. Despatches reported that three Irish priests were seized at Mexico City, but that most of those arrested were Spanish. Sister Margaret Semple, a U. S. citizen, principal of the Roman Catholic Visitation Academy for girls at Mexico City, formally complained to Ambassador Sheffield and declared that the Mexican authorities have warned her that she must cease her educational activities or expect to be deported immediately...