Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover accepted the resignation of David H. Blair of North Carolina as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. ¶ For the first time since Calvin Coolidge Jr., playing upon them, developed a heel blister which went into a fatal infection in 1924, tennis was played last week upon the White House courts. Players: Secretary of State Stimson, Assistant Secretary of State Francis White, White House Physician Joel T. Boone, Director Leo S. Rowe of the Pan-American Union. President Hoover does not play tennis...
...life. ... As politics is but one aspect of the social order, its need of men of special educational equipment is ... obvious." ¶ To the White House last week went a 14 ¼-pound Penobscot salmon, carefully packed in ice and moss. What made this salmon different: It was the first caught upon the opening of the Bangor Pool. Presidential salmon-catcher: Horace W. Chapman of Bangor. ¶ Mrs. Hoover sat, last week, for her first First Lady portrait in oils, to Artist David Cleeland of Manhattan, commissioned by TIME, The Weekly Newsmagazine...
...Wadsworth Chapman, handed a $4,000,000 check to Chairman T. V. O'Connor of the U. S. Shipping Board. The biggest shipping deal in U. S. history thus completed, the Leviathan's personnel was cut 10% and away she sailed with 1,398 passengers on her first trip under private ownership...
...York State Legislature this year refused to pass a prohibition enforcement act. Last week it did, however, enact a law to protect its citizens from the ravages of wood (methyl) alcohol. A 'legger selling this poison as a beverage will go to jail for one year the first time, for two to five years thereafter. Now to stay within the State law, New York 'leggers must deal strictly in the kind of alcohol (ethyl) prohibited...
...When first introduced, the measure made felonious the sale of beverages containing "wood alcohol or other poisonous substance." Realizing that the U. S. Drys, Consolidated, would soon seek to establish that all alcohol was a "poisonous substance," the Wets quickly changed the bill to specify wood alcohol...