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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...House stood a restless group of photographers in a little forest of tripods. Behind the desk stood a group of Senators, Cabinet Members, State Department officials. At the desk, of course, sat President Coolidge, in frock coat and wing collar. On his right sat Vice President Dawes, on his left, Secretary of State Kellogg, behind his chair stood Idaho's square-faced Borah and Virginia's militant Swanson. All eyes turned toward the green morocco case resting on the desk. It contained the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact, officially titled "The General Treaty for the Renunciation of War." There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Jan. 28, 1929 | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...Having interviewed multitudes of Congressmen, well-wishers, job-hunters, advisers, Herbert Clark Hoover left his temporary headquarters at the Mayflower Hotel, entrained for Florida. With him went Mrs. Hoover and an entourage of friends, newsmen, photographers, hawkshaws. Mr. Hoover had canceled his proposed West Indian trip, was to spend a pre-inaugural month on semi-vacation at the home of James Cash Penney, famed chain store dry-goods tycoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover-Curtis | 1/28/1929 | See Source »

...means of contributions given by W. I. Nichols '26 and R. H. Field '26, presidents of the CRIMSON for 1926. The funds were originally intended to supply three cups, the last of which has just been won by the Choate, News, but a residue and the accumulated interest has left enough money to present a fourth cup. The 1926 editors have requested the competition to be continued another year and it is expected that a contest will get underway in the near future. Although the competition has been limited in the past to those school newspapers belonging to the School...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHOATE NEWS TOPS SCHOOL PAPERS FOR CRIMSON CUP AWARD | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

...life blanks for the Senior Album are due at once. Those who fail to comply promptly with this notice will run the risk of being omitted from the Album. Blanks may be sent to 16 Massachusetts Hall or left at Notman's Studio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SENIORS | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

...real secret remained unanswered. Was the whole scheme the plot of a lunatic inventor, or was it merely the result of a process of natural selection? No one can ever know, for Mucilage, realizing the danger to humanity and education that would exist if the mechanism were left in existence, burned it part by part in his furnace the same night. As it dissolved into ashes and smoke, there perished with it the first and only Ghost of Memorial Hall...

Author: By R. L. W., | Title: THE CRIME | 1/23/1929 | See Source »

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