Word: john
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that if Chief Justice William Howard Taft intended to resign, the President had not been so informed; and that if Governor Fred Warren Green of Michigan* (who had arrived that morning to spend a few days at the White House) were going to become Secretary of Labor when James John Davis retires on March 4, it was indeed news to the President...
...Mayor John F. ("Red Mike") Hylan for 29 years served the People. As magistrate he protected the underdog, as mayor he championed the 5¢ fare. For more than three years since his retirement as mayor, chafing under his inability to serve, he has started abortive booms for reelection. Failing in his latest he announced last week...
...John Coolidge, railroad clerk who this summer started work for the New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. at $30.16 per week, signed a lease on a $78 apartment (4 rooms) in New Haven, Conn., for himself and wife-to-be, Miss Florence Trumbull. Miss Trumbull approved modern conveniences already installed, ordered washtubs. Wrote Citizen Calvin Coolidge last month: No newly married couple should pay more rent per month than the husband earns per week...
...bless the gods who wrought her.' Last March John Macrae, president of E. P. Dutton & Co. (books), called the Book-of-the-Month Club "an octopus that sucks away the life blood of the book business." His specific charges: i) Club judges were influenced in book selections by the Club management; 2) discount rate of book purchasing by the Club sometimes exceeded its announced rate; 3) the Club's purpose was misleading. Piqued, the Club sued President Macrae for libel, asked $200,000 damages. Admitting he was "wrong," President Macrae last week retracted his charges. The Club dropped...
...lean-faced Chicago University student and a round-faced Stanford one stepped to tennis fame at Brookline, Mass. They won the national doubles championship from a field which included the Tilden-Hunter team, oldtime champions, and the Van Ryn-Allison team, Wimbledon ("world's") champions. Round-faced John Hope Doeg of Stanford, 20, lefthanded, a smiting server, was especially pleased with himself because it gave him high rank in a high-ranking tennis family. His mother was one of the four court-famed Sutton sisters. His uncle Thomas C: Bundy, who married May Sutton, onetime champion, was twice national doubles...