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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flier Floyd Bennett in Arlington National Cemetery was laid a wreath of ferns and calla lilies sent by President Coolidge. Two days later President Coolidge went to the chamber of the House of Representatives and gazed, during a state funeral service, at the catafalque and bier of his dead friend and Flood Control spokesman, Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois...
...following quotations: "It was a very sociable luncheon party. President Coolidge joked and laughed. I never found Mr. Coolidge a particularly quiet man. I have always found him a real, honest-to-goodness fellow. The luncheon on Tuesday was a very pleasant affair. The conversation was largely about mutual friends. He talked with me as with an old friend. The President did not talk politics at all. The President appeared to be very well. Mrs. Coolidge looked first rate. She was a charming woman, as she always was. The fact is that neither of them have changed, in my opinion...
...secretary. Before that, when Smith was Democratic leader and Speaker of the New York Assembly, Mr. Van Namee was his familiar and chief clerk. In 1920 and again in 1923, Governor Smith appointed him to the Public Service Commission. Than George R. Van Namee, Candidate Smith could have no friend more conversant with what it is about the Brown Derby, and under it, that wins votes...
...Princeton, H. C. Friend '31, W. P. Chapman '31, and D. I. Cooke '31 encountered the Tiger orators, and arguing on the negative side of the question, were defeated by a close vote of the audience in the Hall of the Cliosophic Society...
HANGING JOHNNY-Myrtle Johnston-Appleton ($2). For a handful of silver, Johnny the Hangman hangs his friend, knowing him innocent. The horror of it clings, though Johnny escapes the indignant mob to a distant Irish village. He foreswears his occupation, and, a lover of love and beauty, falls in love with an affectionate but unimaginative woman. Practical, ambitious, Anna persuades her moonraking Johnny to earn occasional hangman's fees, and bring home the dead man's things, now a decent coat, now a stout pair of boots. Tortured by this necessity, Johnny broods over his ropes and ring...