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Dates: during 1920-1929
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However, no amount of nose poking will disprove the plain fact, set forth in my original letter to you, that Coolidge ought to fly with Lindbergh. I repeat also that Roosevelt would have flown with Lindy like a shot, the day Lindbergh got home from Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

TIME in its issue of April 23, printed a letter from J. F. Bassett of Boston in which he writes it would not be fitting for President Coolidge to humiliate himself by flying with Lindbergh in "those brown overalls that aviators wear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 7, 1928 | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...district in Chicago was and is mostly populated by Negroes. Occasionally Mr. Madden would introduce a bill, such as one prohibiting "Jim Crow" cars, to please his own constituents specially. But his main efforts were expended towards national legislation, such as raising the pay of postal clerks and letter carriers, and enlarging the Panama Canal. Last month he got up from a sick bed at President Coolidge's request, to fight for moderation of the "extortionate" Flood Control Bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death of Madden | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

President Calvin Coolidge figured in the laughs. His name was signed to a letter saying The Nation was a "darb"; his picture was substituted for Benjamin Franklin's in the masthead of the Saturday Evening Post, which was published "in association with the United States mint and N. W. Ayer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Life Laughs | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

...Yale Daily News another mayor wrote last week about his civic duties, which included answering a letter from an English woman describing herself and her charms and asking the mayor to find her a strong, good-looking, young husband. The mayor was James J. Walker of New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Clowns | 5/7/1928 | See Source »

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