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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...children born to coal miners before the age of 50 are living at the end of that period. ¶ That physicians, dentists and surgeons have the smallest number of children at the age of 50 when presumably their families are completed. ¶ That of the children born to physicians, etc., under 50 years of age, 10 out of 11 live to the end of that period...
...President asked the General Board of the Army to draft a proposal for suitably rewarding the aviators who made the round-the-world-flight. Several bills granting promotion, bonuses, etc., have been proposed in Congress but not seriously considered. The President wished to present and press a bill approved by the Army.* ¶ Mr. and Airs. Coolidge attended the dedication of the Washington Community Christmas tree, opened voluminous mail, received numerous presents, attended church, heard choral singing at the north portico of the White House by the choir of the First Congregational Church: Bells of Christmas, The First Noel, Sleep...
...proposal is in Congress. Meanwhile, the Shipping Board has taken various measures purporting to carry out the President's wishes. Last week, it passed a resolution re- taining for itself the right to fix trade routes, but giving the Corporation freedom in the selection of vessels, etc., to serve each route, as well as complete custody of all ships, active or inactive. Nevertheless, the Administration's proposal is to be pressed...
...Napoleon proceeds to set matters right. The task is not small; his book is, however, too small to save him from the misrepresentations he feared. In the main, he tells alike of his successes and his failures, his love for Josephine, the reason for his escape from Elba, etc. The sentences are short, sometimes overbearing, sometimes modest-a perfect tally with Napoleon's character. If the manuscript is a forgery-this is unlikely, for, as the translator remarks, Napoleon "went out of his way" to disavow it-it is only possible to congratulate the forger on his vicarious cerebrations...
...citizen-students would cultivate their own fields round about the settlement, would work in carpenter shops, smithies, the village bank and in their own autonomous village government, including a Council of Seven (seniors only) of executive authority, and various stewardships for public safety, welfare, health, etc. A citizen-student prosecuting attorney would cross-examine malefactors brought before a citizen-student judge by citizen-student policemen, defended by a citizen-student public advocate...