Word: haying
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bale of hay"?straw suitcase. Bearer is left strictly alone, as being too rural to "appreciate...
...rediculous. As it is the bookstore manager is the king in the springtime, however obliging he may be at the beginning of the next term. No union of determined undergraduates have formed in opposition to his tyranny and therefore he rules supreme. Decidedly a profiteer, he makes his hay while the sun shines, realizing that the antum months are sufficiently distant to make the rebellious ones forget their wounds...
Died. Payne Whitney, 52, sports-man-financier; younger (by three years) brother of Harry Payne Whitney; son of the late Secretary of the Navy (1885-89) William Collins Whitney; son-in-law of the late Secretary of State (1898-1905) John Hay; from a heart attack, while playing tennis; at Manhasset, N. Y. In 1924 he paid the third largest income tax in the U. S., John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Henry Ford surpassing...
...memory the swearing-in of Calvin Coolidge as President of the U. S.* Newspapers and feature writers united in picturing the scene?the simple Vermont farmhouse, the President's father administering the oath, the old-fashioned lamp whose rays illumined the occasion. Like later pictures of Mr. Coolidge cutting hay with a scythe, it was a demonstration of democracy in the high places, of a President's kinship with his people...
...Calvin Coolidge during the President's Vermont days, told Tarn-many Leader George W. Olvany that he was against the President, wished to organize a Smith boom. He said that the famed kerosene lamp was obsolete, had been purchased at wholesale in 1867. He asked why President Coolidge scythed hay when he might well have used a mowing machine. Terming himself an "agricultural expert," he may have felt that Vermont farm life had been represented as unduly primitive. He said that many another old neighbor shared his opposition to four more years of Calvin Coolidge...