Word: land
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...painting of Mrs. Coolidge by Howard Chandler Christy, showing the first lady of the land in a wine-red velvet gown, with a white collie at her side, was presented Mrs. Coolidge by 800 members of the Pi Beta Phi Sorority, of which she is a member. The portrait was unveiled in the East Room of the White House...
...innocent are ignored, the department becomes the victim of vague unformulated and indefinite charges, and instead of a Government of law we have a Government of lawlessness. . . . It is time that we return to a Government under and in accordance with the usual forms of the law of the land. The state of the Union requires the immediate adoption of such a course...
...details of the proposed visit will be announced until after May 10, on which date the Japanese elections are to be held. It was held in responsible quarters that the Prince will leave Japan in a warship and land at Manhattan, thence across the continent to San Francisco, where he will reëmbark for home...
...Eddystone, Baldwin made its first acquisition of land in 1906. The company has already erected a foundry, boiler shop, cylinder shop, and smithy and wheel shops. The company owns 596 acres of land there, and 185 buildings. Already there has been an appreciable advance in land values there, owing not only to the advent of the Baldwin shops, but also of plants of the Westinghouse, Sun Oil and other companies...
...Wabash Railroad, Willys-Overland has just acquired the Toledo & Western Railroad, as well as several hundred acres of industrial sites in West Toledo. The joint owners have organized the Toledo & Western Railway Co. to operate the road and develop the new industrial acreage. The value of road and land is estimated at $2,000,000; in addition, $1,000,000 will be spent in modernizing the road and improving its terminal facilities in West Toledo. A spur line will very shortly be extended from West Toledo to the great Willys-Overland factory in Toledo...