Word: journeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge and his wife left Washington for Chicago to attend the International Livestock Exposition in Chicago. They traveled both ways in a drawingroom of an ordinary pullman car, and ate in the diner. (Cost of a special train $6,000; a private car $2,200. Estimated cost of the journey to the party $500. The saving is to the Government since cost is paid out of the President's expense account.) Comment: 1) "Good example of economy." 2) "False economy; public travel too dangerous." ¶ In Chicago the President telephoned and asked the health of General Charles G. Dawes...
Austen Chamberlain, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, screwed his eyeglass more firmly into his eye and left the Foreign Office to journey to Rome...
...come, which set out from the White House for Alaska two Junes ago. Of those* who started on the trip, seven are already dead. The first fatalities were the deaths of Sumner Curtis and Thomas Dawson, newspapermen, killed in an accident near Denver on the first leg of the journey. Then came the death of President Harding of apoplexy in August, 1923, while returning to Washington. Fourth, was the death of Mrs. Hubert Work, wife of the Secretary of the Interior, after an automobile accident in May; fifth, the death of Brigadier General Charles E. Sawyer, of cerebral hemorrhage...
Said the guest of honor: "There are many anniversaries which mark our journey through life. At 21 years of age we are welcomed to manhood and citizenship; at 60 and 70 we do not like to have the dates well-known because we wish to be considered younger; at 80 we begin to brag about our age; and when we enter upon the last lap or the century at 90, then the world rejoices and helps us along...
Yale's hockey hope have not been daunted in the least by the destruction by fire of the New Haven Arena last spring. When the preliminary meeting was held on Tuesday night Manager J. H. P. Gould '25 announced that the entire squad would undertake to journey to Baker Memorial rink at Princeton twice weekly until Christmas vacation...