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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon- But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared it away all right." L. V. LA TASTE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Salute | 1/2/1928 | See Source »

...busy executive week for President Coolidge. He appointed Colonel Henry Lewis Stimson, who had so notably served the administration as a pacifier in Nicaragua, to be governor-general of the Philippines (see THE CABINET). He forced the resignation of William S. Hill of South Dakota from the U. S. Shipping Board by appointing Albert H. Denton, Kansas banker, as successor. The President was vexed with Mr. Hill because the latter had indiscreetly accepted a loan from a member of a private shipping concern. Then there was the new $725,000,000 Navy program. See ARMY & NAVY) to be finally approved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...legislature." He cited a State Supreme Court decision to that effect. He posted three companies of National guardsmen to patrol the state capitol and prevent "all insurrectionary meetings," following the tactics of onetime Governor Jack C. Walton, who was impeached in 1923. At dead of night, speaker E. P. Hill of the House of Representatives and H. Thomas Knight, another anti-Johnston agitator, summoned their colleagues to secret conclave in the Huckins Hotel. In pajamas, night-shirts, bathrobes and galluses, without chairs enought to go around,† the sleepy statesmen preferred charges against Governor Johnston, including incompetency, conspiracy to defraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Oklahoma s Governor | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

Engaged. Miss Mariquita S. Villard, niece of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard of The Nation, to Louis Warren Hill Jr., of St. Paul, Minn., who now functions with the Great Northern Railway, built by his grandfather, the late famed James Jerome Hill, and of which his father, Louis Warren Hill, is chairman of the Board of Directors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Dec. 26, 1927 | 12/26/1927 | See Source »

...Joseph J. M. Sargent '31 Envious One G. W. Harrington '30 Zachary D. W. Moreland '28 Host R. H. Jones '30 Shepherd G. R. Holden '31 Shepherd Abbott Peterson '30 Suitor Hamilton Warren ocC. Suitor Adam Rhodes '30 Mary Helen Lewis Elizabeth Helen Field Anastasia Sue Birnie Handmaiden Jessica Hill Handmaiden Margaret Child...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAST OF MIRACLE PLAY ANNOUNCED | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

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