Word: marche
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief executive, Calvin Coolidge found it necessary last week to use unminced language on one important problem. It had been reported that 22 of the "career" diplomats whom President Coolidge raised to the rank of Minister had tentatively agreed among themselves not to resign on March 4, no matter who is elected President. Secretary of State Kellogg refused to believe the report, but it came to the attention of President Coolidge. It seemed like stubborn insubordination to President Coolidge. He labeled it unconstitutional, an attempt of the "career" diplomats to make themselves a self-perpetuating group. He pointed out that...
First came famed Sculptor John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, who threw the image of his design upon the cliff with a gigantic stereopticon and marked the outlines accordingly. Feverishly vexed was Mr. Borglum when his contracts were cancelled. He smashed his models (TIME, March 2, 1924 et seq.). Said he: "Am l a plumber to be hired by a committee? I am not. They say that I have loafed on the job, don't they? There isn't a corpuscle of my blood that loafs." The Stone Mountain Association appointed Virginian Sculptor Henry Augustus Lukeman to succeed Mr. Borglum...
When a silent, bespectacled, fidgety man resigned, last March, as chairman of the board of the Boston and Maine R. R. (TIME, March 26), many a voice was raised in applause and inquiry. It was generally conceded that Homer Loring had done well, for in February the road had made a new high operating record. It was generally asked what Homer Loring would do next, for no one believed the physician to ailing industries would be long without a patient...
...Colonel Lindbergh, Mr. Tunney feels that this is the best way to acquire the liberal education which heretofore time has not allowed him to pursue just what led him to feel that the epitome of world culture is contained within this glittering district is not clear. Perhaps Iris March told...
...last parade of all is the greatest. The band plays old songs that are used only this once each year. The men of the graduates march to the front, a long straight line, they face about and the Corps that is left swings by them in review. It is almost a holy time...