Word: franked
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker Longworth lit a cigaret in one corner of the stand. He had seen many such ceremonies. The Coolidge Cabinet, led by Frank Billings Kellogg (who will continue as Secretary of State until the arrival of Henry Lewis Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...
...Calvin Coolidge accompanied by Citizeness Coolidge quietly drove from the Inauguration ceremonies at the Capitol to the Union Station a few blocks away. At the station they entered the private car of Edward G. Buckland, Vice President of the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R., an old friend. Frank W. Stearns, who six years ago rode to Washington with the then new President, likewise joined the party. So did Dr. James F. Coupal, who had been White House physician. At 2:35 the Montrealer steamed out of the station to return to Massachusetts its greatest citizens...
District Attorney Stimson destroyed the sugar fraud ring, sent Charles W. Morse to the Atlanta penitentiary, extracted a $30,000 fine out of James Gordon Bennett for running immoral "Personal" advertisements in the old Herald. (Simultaneously the outgoing Secretary of State, Frank Billings Kellogg, was engaged in smashing the old Standard...
United Hotels Co. Twenty-five hotels owned, 38 controlled, comprise the U. S., Canadian and West Indian hotels in the United Hotels Co. system. Head of United is New York-born Frank A. Dudley, versatile organizer. He left his Niagara Falls law office to serve in the New York State Legislature. He organized the Buffalo & Niagara Falls Railway. He organized the Electric City Bank, then went to the Pacific Coast and organized the North Coast R. R. An even more famed organizer, the late great Harriman, offered him a job, but, "No," said he, "I don't care much...
...Fort Myers, Fla., last week, Motorman Henry Ford talked of a world-wide Ford factory system. Said he: "I am frank to admit that I am an internationalist." He predicted Ford plants in France, in Russia, in Ireland, in South America and in other (unspecified) countries...