Word: madison
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge acquired ten large balls of yarn and began 18 months' work on a great quilt or bedspread, knitted, to bedeck a fourposter in the state bedroom of the White House. Every mistress of the White House from Dolly Madison to Mrs. McKinley made something to leave behind her in the executive mansion...
...long, what sort of Senator will he be? There are two LaFollette scions: Robert M. Jr. and Philip. Robert Jr. has never held public office. He is 30, the minimum age for entering the Senate.* Philp is 28. He is District Attorney of Dane County (the county in which Madison, the state capital, is situate), the same job in which his father entered on his political career...
...TIME Madison, Wis. New York, N. Y. July 14, 1925. Sirs: In your editing article on Sir William Osler (TIME, July 13, 1925), you say that at the Barrie Grammar School he "threw a cricket ball 115 yd. -a throw never beaten, at least by an amateur.' " I beg, modestly, to offer a correction. At the field day sports, University of Wisconsin, in 1884, I threw a baseball 384 ft. 1 in., or 39 ft. 1 in. farther than the Osler record. Chicago, Milwaukee and Madison papers of that day published the fact; and before me is a copy...
...TIME Madison, Conn...
Than the Rev. Dr. Henry Sloan Coffin, pastor of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, Manhattan, few distinguished divines have been honored by more distinguished universities. Two weeks ago, Columbia University, and, last week, Princeton, conferred upon him an honorary D.D. Already he had been so honored by New York University, 1906; by Yale, his alma mater, 1915 ; by Harvard...