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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...goes well and whether or not there is a White House wedding before March, the Coolidge family seemed to have been reduced pretty permanently to two. What Washington wondered was: where will they go, now that he has but to beckon for a lordly income, now that she has grown accustomed to spaciousness? Architects were anxious. Before the White House, the Coolidges were content to live in hotels. Before that it was the two-family house ($32.50 per month) on Massasoit Street. Believers in the Grand Manner almost wished that there was a law providing that an outgoing President...
...stand because in different cities different stands are needed to please different groups of readers. Mr. Hearst used to be a Democrat. But ever since he was publicly tongue-lashed by Alfred Emanuel Smith in their celebrated quarrel of 1919, et seq., the G. O. P. has grown in Hearst favor. Before the nominating conventions this year, the Hearst press boomed Secretary Mellon for President and Prosperity. When Mayor Walker of New York City visited the Hearst ranch after the Democratic convention, people said he went to make overtures; to persuade Mr. Hearst, if not actually to support Nominee Smith...
...Boxer days, I was in the vicinity of Tientsin. By that time I was a grown man, and I could not but observe the home life and serenity of spirit of many Christians whom I knew. After a time I became a convert to Christianity...
Shrewdness and flair and certainly Kate, enabled the young Deputy to climb to the top of his party, National Liberal, now grown into the German Peoples' Party. She may have bought him the portrait of Napoleon or the one of Byron. Anyhow he still keeps both...
Clinton W. Gilbert, still with the New York Evening Post, long iamed for his "Daily Mirror of Washington" (mostly personalities, anecdotes) has grown dull and vague. Perhaps because he is cool to Hooverism, whereas his newspaper is Hoover...