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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...garden party given for disabled veterans of the War, there was an interruption when the President was notified that a bill had arrived from Congress for his signature. It provided $6,850,000 for completion of Veterans' Bureau Hospitals. The President ordered a table brought out on the lawn, signed the bill before the wounded soldiers and gave one of them the pen with which he signed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Jun. 16, 1924 | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...real estate men who assembled in convention and paraded the streets wearing white flannels and brilliant hat bands inscribed with the names of their home cities. All Washington was placarded with signs of "Welcome Realtors." Not to be outdone, the President welcomed them on the south lawn of the White House and in a short speech declared: "No other business group contributes more effort to establishing full appreciation of the great present and assured future of our country. You are purveyors of cheer, confidence and soundly based optimism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Mr. Coolidge's Week: Jun. 16, 1924 | 6/16/1924 | See Source »

...Club, rear of Holworthy Hall of Sever 13 and 19: Phi Kappa Epsilon, rear (south) of Matthews Hall or Sever 23; Phillips Brooks House; rear of Phillips Brooks House; Pl Eta Club, Gymnasium; S. A. E. Club, rear (north) of Matthews Hall or Harvard 2; Speakers Club, Wadsworth Lawn or Sever 1, 2, 5, and 6; St. Paul Catholic Club, rear of Holden Chapel or Holden Chapel; Private Spread (H. T. Holland), west of Fogg Museum or Sever 7 and 8; Private Spread (W. M. Rozenbaum), Harvard 6; Private Spread (R. C. Rothenberg), east of Fogg Museum or Sever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LOCATIONS ANNOUNCED FOR SENIOR SPREADS | 6/7/1924 | See Source »

...Olympic games, Harvard and Yale versus Oxford and Cambridge, the international polo matches, golf, lawn tennis, and other games and sports have blazed the trail, but these are exclusive competitions. The time has arrived to organize International competitions in which the working-man and the ordinary citizen who cannot reach the exclusive standard may take part real, thorough-going democratic sport on an adequate scale. It was the spirit of sportsmanship which brought the nations into the war to frustrate the claim of Germany to ride roughshod over the world. The spirit of sportsmanship--fair play for all--alone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETES AND NOT DIPLOMATS NEEDED | 6/4/1924 | See Source »

...French and Spanish Davis Cup teams may be included in the schedule of the combined Harvard-Yale tennis team, which is to play the Oxford-Cambridge aggregation in East-bourne this summer, according to an announcement by the United States Lawn Tennis Association. Tentative dates have been set as August 15 in Paris for the former, and August 20 in Barcelona for the latter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NET MEN MAY MEET FRENCH AND SPANISH TENNIS TEAMS | 5/19/1924 | See Source »

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