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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bevy of female newsgatherers hovering around '"Buffalo" (Girl Honorary Scout President Lou Henry Hoover)-for it was she and not Mrs. Herbert Hoover, First Lady of the Land-all squatted down just as though they were beside a campfire in the woods instead of in a Manhattan art gallery whither ''Buffalo" had come for the opening of an Americana exhibition...
...Oyez, oyez, oyez!" will cry, for the first time since June, a dark, handsome, neatly morning-coated gentleman in the most august room in the national Capitol a few minutes after noon on the first Monday in October. "All persons having business before the Honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention, for the Court is now sitting. God save the United States and this Honorable Court...
...published is a book called The Psychology of Happiness by Professor Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia University.* Therein it is stated that Woodrow Wilson had, from childhood, "a constitutional infirmity which he struggled to hide and did hide with such cunning the world never suspected it." This was "the first-and perhaps most poisonous-virus of his unhappiness...
Albert Bacon Fall made his first great expedition in the world when, aged 10, he accompanied his parents from Frankfort, Ky., his birthplace (1861), to Nashville, Tenn...
...made a trip back to Texas, to marry Emma Garland Morgan. A few years later he rode in the first Mexican Central train from Mexico City to El Paso, whence he went to New Mexico...