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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Idaho, as piscator, at Washington, scoffed at President Coolidge catching trout with angleworms in South Dakota: "They must have been imbecile trout. My interpretation is that the President must have caught not trout, but catfish. I never heard of catching a trout with a worm. Those South Dakota trout must be so elated over the President's coming to their state that they joined in the welcoming procession." Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, as piscator, said of President Coolidge's method of catching trout with angleworms in South Dakota: "Any trout that would bite on a worm...
...Court then heard evidence tending to prove: 1) that although 19-year-old Assassin Kovenko is now an anti-Communist he once served in the Soviet Army; 2) that his character is "highly excitable" but "entirely honorable...
...Combination eight was also out, but Coach C. S. Heard '25 has made a radical shift in the personnel of his boat and spent the morning coaching his charges. E. B. Hanley '27, formerly rowing in the number 7 seat in the 150-pound crew has been moved up to stroke the Combination eight, taking the place of B. J. Harrison '29 who has been moved back to number 6. D. R. Kroell '29 who has been rowing in the number 6 seat dropped out of the boat...
During the 1924 presidential campaign, much was heard concerning the "Coolidge myth." Democrats maintained that between the President's capacity and the President's reputation yawned a tremendous chasm, that a Republican press had created a fiction of a "strong, silent" White House occupant. When the President won the election with a plurality of 7,300,000 votes, they attributed his victory to the potency of the Coolidge "myth...
Christian Scientists. To Boston went 6,000 Christian Scientists from all parts of the world to attend the annual meeting of the "Mother Church." They heard Retiring President Charles E. Heitman declare that their church was "fulfilling its mission as a healing church"; elected him business manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society; elected Mrs. Ella W. Hoag of Bropkline, Mass., new president of their group. She is a disciple of Mary Baker Patterson Glover Eddy...