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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were 6% ($100,000,000) greater than the estimate. Miscellaneous receipts ($643,000,000) included a number of items not foreseen or predictable-$34,000,000 from railroads, $15,000,000 from "Army costs" receipts, $6,400,000 from the sale of surplus Navy stores, etc. In addition, the expenditures fell about $4,500,000 below expectations. These items made the difference...
...Yoakum of Manhattan is a railroad man. His father was a doctor and a minister in Texas. The son began his career as a "colonization agent" of a Texas railroad. He rose, became a railroad president (St. Louis & San Francisco). He gave "much thought" to the cost of living, etc. In February, 1922, he came forward with a plan for funding foreign War debts to the U. S. He proposed that the debtor nations issue to the U. S. 4½% 50-year bonds with a sinking fund of 2% yearly. With these as collateral, the U. S. should issue...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge? with Secretary and Mrs. Sanders, Major Coupal (presidential physician), secret service men, etc.?took a morning's automobile ride through Chelsea, Revere Beach, Everett, Somerville, Aledford, Cambridge, Watertown. In that vicinity they stopped at the Arlington cemetery to inspect the graves of John and Mary "Coolidg" ancestors of the President in the 10th generation who both died in 1891, both aged 88. A stop was made at the Belmont Springs Country Club (of which Governor Coolidge was once a member) where the President bought cigars for his party...
...Lawgiver; on Good Friday, on the Mount of Olives Gethsemane; at Bethlehem, in the Church of the Nativity, on Easter Saturday, The Prince oj Peace; on the Mount of Olives, on Easter, The Great Commission of Christ; in Samaria, Noaman the Leper: at Damascus, Paul's Heavenly Vision; etc., 16 addresses...
This time, however, it strikes nearer home. Under AERONAUTICS, appears the following: "Hitherto, no seaplane has flown for more than 15 hours at a time, etc. I, personally happened to have been the Commanding Officer and First Pilot of Navy Seaplane No. 3589 F-S-L type, which left the water at 11 00 a. m. on Apr. 21, 1919, at Hampton Roads Va., and flew continuously until 8:12 a. m. the following dav, having remained in the air 20 hours and 12 minutes, establishing a world's record for seaplanes which I believe has not since been...