Word: friend
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the little bald man went into the President's office, White House newsgatherers paid no special attention. That particular little bald man was always going into the President's office. He was President Coolidge's great & good friend, Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, who used to be a college president* and still looks like one though he long since mastered the art of big politics-mastered it so well that he has come to be regarded as President Coolidge's mouthpiece on the Senate floor. President Coolidge once tried to dispel this aura from...
...Coleridge, Esq. with the love, regard and esteem of his obliged and grateful friend." These words, signed "J. Watson", appear upon the fly leaf of one of the most interesting books in the Treasure Room of Widener Library, a book received yesterday from the library of the late Norton Perkins '98. For this volume, the library has had printed a book blate bearing the following inscription: "In memory of Norton Perkins '98, and in honor of John Livingston Lowes and his 'Road to Xanadu...
...entire population (about 3,000). Mrs. George W. Mackey, wife of Western Union Traffic Manager Mackey, lent Miss Elder an evening gown for a reception in her honor. Said the guest: "I have nothing to wear but the clothes on my back but I hope some kind friend will rig me out." Later, she replied "indeed not" when asked if she were too tired to dance. She declined, however, to accompany Friederich Loose, Karl Loewe & Fraulein Dillenz (Viennese actress) on their flight by easy stages from the Azores to the U. S. She wanted to go to Paris first. There...
...rubber (like Harvey Samuel Firestone and Henry Ford) would rather raise it than stretch for it. In 1926, Mr. Firestone bought 1,000,000 acres in Liberian jungleland from which, in nine years, he will get his own rubber for his own tires. Now Mr. Firestone's close friend, Henry Ford, has adopted a similar policy...
...also, however, a onetime President of the New York Trust Co. When the Merchants' Trust was closed in 1905, he, as receiver, paid back every depositor with interest in four months. He served on the New York City Board of Education, because, like his classmate & good friend, President Emeritus Arthur Twining Hadley of Yale, he had long been identified with educational activity. For 18 years he has been a member of the Yale Corporation...