Word: lunches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mused: "I guess the people in Washington won't be so glad to see me now and my countrymen won't be so proud of me." President Coolidge determined to provide nourishment and dispel unhappy fears by a public mark of favor. He asked Captain Carranza to lunch...
...long night of quorum calls and Arizona oratory changed the Senate's mind about not adjourning when the House had suggested. Senator Curtis bided his time until late Tuesday morning, when Senators begin longing for lunch. Then he put again the proposal on which the Senate had split 40-40 the day before. This time the Vice President got no chance to keep his minions at work. The Senators voted 46 to 35 that they had had enough...
Clarence Dillon and Walter Percy Chrysler were eating lunch at a Manhattan club, some four miles from Wall Street, May made fair weather outdoors. Mr. Dillon had just returned from one of his frequent idlings in Europe (this was three weeks ago) and looked almost robust...
Excitement in Congress over the condition of the farmer perennially arouses curiosity among citizens who depend on the farmer for food. "How," asked the man-at-the-lunch-counter last week, "is the farmer really fixed? What is the Government doing, or not doing...
There being no such, thing as a typical farmer; the distances and facilities between farms and markets being so various; the judgment of individuals?and the farmer remains a landmark of Individual-ism?running the scale it does, the first question of the man-at-the-lunch-counter is impossible to answer irrefutably. Some farmers drive Packards. Others ride mules. Some have radios. Others wear patched pants...