Word: marches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jose Manuel Puig-Casavrane, Mexican Minister of Education, and Ambassador Don Manuel C. Tellez. Among the guests were Secretary Kellogg, Secretary Work, Secretary Hoover, Representative Stephen G. Porter and Representative Linthicum. The last two are respectively Chairman and ranking Democrat of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, which on March 30 will hold a hearing on the expulsion of foreign nuns and priests by the Mexican Government...
...early part of 1825, amid a great outcry and no little bitterness, the House of Representatives chose* a President of the U. S. It passed over a western general by the name of Jackson and pointed its finger at a gentleman from Massachusetts. On March 4, 1825, there was an old man in his 90th year who had great joy in his heart. He had been retired for 24 years but in his time he had had a career?been Ambassador to Holland and England, been Vice President of the U. S., yes, and President. But March...
...first American ever to see his son become President of the U. S. And John Adams was glad. It is averred that like joy never entered into a father's heart until March 4, 1921, when Doctor Harding of Marion, Ohio, saw his son Warren made President...
There is little to say of Colonel Coolidge, save that he was a man of affairs in a tiny Vermont village. He was born on March 31, 1845, schooled in the neighborhood at the same schools his son later attended. He began his career as a wheelwright, then he rented the general store. At 27 he was elected to the state legislature, served six terms, and added to them one term in the state Senate. His title of Colonel came to him when Governor Stickney appointed him to the gubernatorial staff. He was local tax-collector for 38 years, postmaster...
...cold dawn of March 4, 1897, a freight train drew into the city of Washington. Two dirty, shivering, hungry young hoboes hopped off the bumpers and began to wear out the pavements of the Capital. One of them tried to cash a check for $15. He was indignantly refused, although he explained that his father was a judge in Pittsburgh and he was a freshman at Princeton. The two hungry boys walked up to a well-dressed man in the street. He smiled when he saw them and grinned when they told their story. "Here's $20," he said...