Word: harding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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, a bill meant for national defense, and a peace treaty meant to make national defence unnecessary is paradoxical but potent...
...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, had orders to guard against and censor all importune press photographs...
Last week, speaking to 600 officers of the Fascist militia, Secretary Turati snorted: "The whole world is against us. We are against the whole world because we are antidemocrats, anti-Liberals, anti-Socialists. Fascismo is a thorn in Europe's eye, a hard blow in her back, an army which obeys, fights, dies and does not argue...
...Doorn this stock question is still supposed to be answered unctuously and favorably. But August von Mackensen, the hard, the merciless, the man who whipped Rumania down upon bloody knees, answered Host Hohenzollern thus: "There is not the slightest evidence that the people desire Your Majesty's return...
Unlike many poloists, Hitchcock cares little for horses, little for hunting. He rides his ponies hard and not gracefully. But he was bred out of a family of polo-lovers. His mother, herself a player, has been friend and mentor of the Meadow Larks, a team which included young Tommy and Stevenson and many another youngster who now has an international rating. It was she who in 1921 polished the play of the 16-year-old Guest, then a raw but distinguished immigrant to the U. S. from England. Polo is in the Hitchcock blood. Thomas Hitchcock Jr. ranks with...