Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week there strode into the flat white Department of Interior building in Washington a tall muscular man with a thick black mop of hair. His "good morning" to attendants who were just beginning to recognize him was quick, incisive. He was Dr. William John Cooper, Commissioner of Education in the U. S. Department of the Interior, succeeding tireless Dr. John James Tigert, now president of the University of Florida...
...William John Cooper is a onetime superintendent of public instruction in California, his native State. He is a 32° Mason, a Rotarian. One of his favorite phrases is "the democracy of education," by which he means giving to each student the kind of work he prefers and can do best...
Charles Evans Hughes, John William Davis and their wives sailed last week from Manhattan on the S. S. Bermuda for Bermuda. Asked if the Hugheses and Davises were travelling together, Lawyer Hughes replied: "No. We are each holding our own show...
Gerardo Machado, President of Cuba, entertained Alfred Emanuel Smith and John Jacob Raskob last week in Havana. Pensively twirling a glass of champagne, Mr. Raskob observed, ''We can't do this in our country." "Legally," added Mr. Smith...
...colorful as the vanished palaces of Carthage, as modern in design as a straight-eight motor. These qualities are assured by a commission of eight architects who long ago for sook archaeology to create skyscrapers: Harvey Wiley Corbett (Chairman), Ralph T. Walker and Raymond M. Hood, of Manhattan; John A. Holabird, Edward H. Bennett and Daniel H. Burnham of Chica go; Arthur Brown Jr., of San Francisco; Paul P. Cret of Philadelphia...