Word: gooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...presented by militant objectors to the treaty's ratification is the cruiser-building bill which was lost in the last session of Congress. Responsible people have said that President Coolidge encouraged that bill's defeat. They have also said that the cruiser bill would be a good one to trade for the treaty's ratification. They have said further that President Coolidge foresaw this trading possibility. It will not be hard for President Coolidge to reencourage the cruiser bill. It was recommended by his Secretary of the Navy originally. The combination of a Coolidge cruiser bill...
...Coolidge had her son John's to think about. He was leaving her again, going East for his first job. Inquiries and arrangements had been made with the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. after John and his father had decided that railroading would be a good thing to learn, from the bottom up. Mrs. Coolidge spent Labor Day getting John's things packed up and sitting with him on the porch. His mother and father knew how hard on John the Publicity thing could be. Secret Service Man Russell Wood, the boy's constant companion...
...Smith's conciliation policy will restore the United States to the good graces of foreign powers-long lost through Republican assininity."-Haley Fiske, president of the Metropolitan Life Insurance...
...Hoff can sympathize with Chicago's famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone in the matter of the risk and privations a big promoter must suffer. Once "Boo Boo" felt it would be good for his health to spend weeks and weeks indoors. When the danger, whatever it was, had passed "Boo Boo" turned up again at his old haunt, a multi-roomed suite in a Philadelphia hotel. Once again the "mob" made whoopee. Once again "Boo Boo" played emperor among his rabelaisian underlings and generous host to out-of-town visitors. Visiting sport-writers among whom "Boo Boo" is universally...
...Stockholm, Sweden) had been driven off their course by a storm, and with gasoline running low had made a safe landing in Greenland's frozen wilderness. They lived for two weeks on eight ounces of pemmican a day. When found, both Hassell and Cramer were in good health, able to eat big bowls of soup and a caribou steak...