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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Over the regular trans-Atlantic telephone Prince George talked from Manhattan with Queen Mary. Later he peered from the top of the Woolworth building, sat down to dine at 8:30 in the Vanderbilt mansion, slipped out at 10:15 to catch his ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Crown | 12/24/1928 | See Source »

...Hoover Cabinet was picked, it was reported, but would not be announced until a few weeks before inauguration.*Those weeks will be spent by the President-Elect on Belle Isle, off Miami Beach, Fla., in the mansion of James C. Penney, chainstore man, intimate friend. A proud parent, the city of Miami proper last week invited Calvin Coolidge to come there too, to stay permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hoover Progress | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

After services in the Baptist Church at Charlottesville-conducted by a Presbyterian, with a sermon by a Methodist * -the President shook hands with Governors Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who escorted him to the mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

...President Coolidge telephoned Governor Trumbull's mansion in Hartford, Conn., formally to congratulate his son John on the formal announcement of his engagement to marry Miss Florence Trumbull. It was Governor & Mrs. Trumbull's silver (25th) wedding anniversary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Skunked | 12/10/1928 | See Source »

Despite the storm, the grounds around the Executive Mansion were just as full as on that mid-summer night of nomination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Exit | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

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