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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Connecticut Ave., went President Hoover. There in bed lay his good old friend Theodore Elijah Burton, 77, suffering complications after an attack of grippe he had last month. It was the President's second call since the senator fell ill. He stayed some little time, the chunky, healthy, 55-year-old executive talking with, and listening to, the venerable legislator, scholar, statesman, peace-seeker...
...erratic friend of Charles Curtis of Kansas is William Allen White of Kansas. In his voluminous public writings, Mr. White once called Mr. Curtis "a nit-wit." But during the 1928 campaign he more or less retracted that and helped the Hoover-Curtis ticket by throwing mud at Alfred Emanuel Smith...
...tones as follows: "If anyone has- any difficulty-in hearing me-in the remotest cor-rners of this hall-do not bla-ame it on Calif-o-ornia-but bla-ame it on Ka-ansas City!" It was great-voiced John L. McNab, San Francisco lawyer, placing his good friend, Herbert Clark Hoover, in nomination for the Presidency of the U. S. Then John L. McNab retired from the national scene...
Helen Hicks, a stocky girl from Hewlett, L. I., with fat cheeks and muscular legs, has become one of the best women golf players in the world by imitating her friend Maureen Orcutt. Miss Orcutt, shy and broad-shouldered, with a jaw like a prizefighter's, became good enough to be the idol of Miss Hicks by trying to be as good as Glenna Collett. Thus the three most famed of the competitors who gathered at the Oakland Hills Club in Birmingham, Mich., last week to decide the Women's National Championship composed a sequence with Hicks...
...submarine warfare against the attacks of Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg. With the Armistice and the disastrous Treaty of Versailles a sudden change came upon him. Always acutely practical he realized that right or wrong in the War, Germany was beaten, that her only hope of salvation lay in making friends with her former enemies. After a brief interval as German Chancellor, 1923 found him Germany's Foreign Minister, a position he has retained ever since. There followed the Locarno pact, Germany's entrance into the League-a record that won him the Nobel Peace prize...