Word: formalities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Because of the absence of several members of the Cabinet from Washington on their vacations, President Coolidge abandoned all formal Cabinet meetings until the vacation season is past. Those members of the Cabinet who are in Washington see the President at frequent conferences. But for the time being the official family is broken...
When Secretary of State Hughes and President Coolidge have examined the results, they are expected to make public the steps that the U. S. will take?which may well include diplomatic recognition, the execution of a formal treaty, the appointment of an Ambassador to Mexico...
Twenty-four hours after the President died, his body was conveyed from the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, with simple ceremonies to the special train which had carried him .on his outward journey. On a fast schedule it started across the continent to Washington. Plans were made for formal obsequies in the Rotunda of the Capitol on Wednesday and interment at Marion, Ohio, on Friday. Calvin Coolidge, who succeeded to the Presidency, appointed that day for national mourning...
Thomas Long, American whaler, cruised along the island in 1867, but its real discovery came in 1881, when the U. S. revenue cutter Corwin landed a search party, built a cairn, raised the American flag, made formal claim to the island in the name...
William Randolph Hearst, largest individual landowner in Mexico, has filed a formal protest with the State Department at Washington against the threatened seizure of his Barbicora ranch of 333,000 acres by the Farm Commission of the state of Chihuahua...