Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...bedspread, knitted nearly a year ago by Mrs. Coolidge and intended to be left in the White House, bore a prophecy. On one side was knitted "Lincoln 1861-1865." On the other side; "Calvin Coolidge-1923-1929." Long before President Coolidge announced his "choice," Mrs. Coolidge said, to a friend who exclaimed at her bedspread, "I know what I'm doing...
...prevent dereliction. U. S. business was glad. Educated at Yale and Harvard, cultivated in Manhattan, Col. Stimson has a conservative backround and, by his pacification of Nicaragua last spring, his ability has been demonstrated. Mrs. Leonard Wood was glad, too. Col. Stimson was long her late husband's friend...
Which Jew, by his services to the U. S., deserves to be honored with a statue, was the question that the Jewish Tribune put to its readers last Rosh Hashonah (TIME, Oct. 3). Last week came the decision-the late Oscar Solomon Straus (1850-1926), diplomat. He was the friend and aid of four U. S. Presidents. For Grover Cleveland he went to Turkey as U. S. Minister; at Constantinople he protected the U. S. mission schools & colleges. For William McKinley he again went to Turkey as Minister. William Howard Taft sent him there a third time, as Ambassador. Meanwhile...
Round and round the asphalt plaza at the Capitol went a glossy new Ford car. At the wheel, beaming at onlookers, sat plump, white-polled James Couzens of Michigan, wealthiest U.S. Senator. The car, No. 35 of the new "A" series, was a gift to Senator Couzen from his friend & onetime business associate, Henry Ford. James Couzens owned & operated No. 35 of Henry Ford's original "T" series...
...Hotel des Bergues astute Aristide Briand greeted Pilsudski with a neat reference to the days when they were fellow radicals.? "My old friend," he said, "we see now how useful it is to be a Socialist. Here you are Premier Marshal and Dictator of your country while I hold the record for the number of times** I have been Premier of mine." Seemingly the Marshal (a Socialist turned Autocrat) minded not this sally...