Word: late
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lindbergh, a magnificently "sporting" thing for him to do in a country which prides itself on its sportsmanship. There's too much play-safe policy among its public figures. Roosevelt would fly with Lindbergh like a shot-he would have the day Lindbergh got home from Paris! Better late than never...
...first big job Engineer Hoover had was to introduce U. S. methods in Australia's goldfields. Then, aged 25, he advised on mines and railroads for the late Emperor Kwang-Hsü of China. He introduced U. S. methods to Kyshtym in South Russia, making an oldtime estate of the Romanovs' into a mining centre where young Russian engineers soon pilgrimaged to complete their education. Italy engaged Engineer Hoover one summer to prospect in the Alps for the iron old Romans must have used for their swords.* Engineer Hoover and his brother, Theodore Jesse Hoover (who lives...
...Where-to-go-this-summer remained unfinished business at the White House. From a letter President Coolidge lately wrote, Vermonters were persuaded he will be among them during at least part of his vacation. From another letter, North Carolinians were sure that the President appreciated his invitation to a mansion on Beaucatcher Mountain, near Asheville. Georgians talked of offering an island estate off their coast. Senators McKellar and Tyson of Tennessee called and offered the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Pound of Chattanooga, on historic Lookout Mountain. Governor Byrd of Virginia and small Boiling Byrd Flood...
When he reached the platform in Gray Chapel, on the Campus of Ohio Wesleyan University, all Delaware was massed in the seats. Marching clubs were milling about. The "President-making" Republican Glee Club of Columbus sang the late Mrs. Harding's favorite song, "The End of a Perfect Day." Senator Willis, feeling though not recognizing the start of a cerebral hemorrhage, muttered to his wife that he needed air. He walked across the platform, staggered through the door, fell into the arms of his secretary, Charles A. Jones...
There are three Robinsons-Joseph Taylor Robinson, senior Senator from Arkansas, Democratic leader; Theodore Douglas Robinson, nephew of the late Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy; and Arthur R. Robinson, whom discredited Governor Jackson of Indiana chose out of his Klannish entourage in 1925 to fill out the term of the late Samuel M. Ralston as Indiana's junior Senator...