Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Mellon celebrated his 74th birthday last week by calling on his friend President Coolidge. Birthday festivities consisted of a handshake, laconic felicitations, a long conference on the tax-reduction situation. Leaving the White House, Secretary Mellon declined to divulge what he and the President had decided was to be the Treasury's specific recommendation to the Senate Finance Committee when the latter begins hearings on the House's tax bill next week. He said only that tax payments in the first quarter of 1928 seemed so far to justify the Treasury's original estimates...
...Passed a resolution ordering the arrest of Thomas W. Cunningham of Philadelphia, friend of Senator-suspect Vare, for refusal to answer questions on campaign funds...
Last fortnight, irate, a Mrs. A. E. Spangler of Washington wrote to Southern Senators and said: "Where are all our distinguished statesmen and scholars, who know their South as they do their prayers, that this Charlie Chaplin of New York's east side, friend of the bootlegger and saloonkeeper, is invited to describe the achievements of the South at the dedication of this shrine to the South's greatest soldier? Are our men and women afraid to oppose the will of Tammany that they offer no protest to such an insult to the memory of General...
...hypnotist can also induce emotional states that carry over into consciousness. He can tell Sam Brown that his good friend Oswald Schimmelpilz insulted him. After repeating this good news during several hypnoses Sam will have become convinced and, the first time he sees his good friend Oswald, will probably sock him on the nose...
Lean beef, fat beef, beef tongue, liver, brain, marrow: that is what two men ate and it is all they ate: for 21 days, Vilhjalmur Stefansson, famed Arctic explorer; for 57 days, his friend and erstwhile companion, Karsten Anderson, whose present business is orange growing. Last week, the trial done, Dr. Stefansson went straight to Fairfield, Conn., where after a dinner of beef tongue by choice, he testimonialed: "Before the experiment I felt lackadaisical on getting up in the morning but now I feel like jumping out of bed and getting right to work...