Word: maryland
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Minister to the Netherlands, to pay his respects; Governor John W. Martin of Florida to invite the President to visit his state this winter (the gentleman from Florida was shocked to see a bed of pansies in full bloom on the White House lawn); Representative John Philip Hill of Maryland to explain a plan for creating a Department of National Defense (uniting War, Navy and Air-a plan to which the President is opposed) ; Senator Willis of Ohio to discuss plans for getting the Senate to approve U. S. adherence to the World Court...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge, attended by the President's secretary, physician, aides and secret service detail, took train in Washington one afternoon and traveled westward through Maryland and Pennsylvania across the Alleghenies and on to Chicago to address a convention of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The Presidential party rode as the second section of a regular train, not in an ordinary Pullman drawing room as on his trip to Chicago a year ago to attend the annual Live Stock Exposition...
...judges of the final debate of the James Barr Ames competition on January 22, were announced yesterday. These will be Hon. Robert von Moschzisher, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, who will preside: Hon. Carroll T. Bond, Justice of the Court of Appeals of Maryland; Hon. Joseph L. Bodine, Judge of the United States District Court of New Jersey...
...Baltimore, an aged pianist whose eyes looked out of caverns that fatigue had carved in his sombre face, struck up "Maryland, My Maryland." The chords strode across a half-empty Armory, coming faintly to the ears of a far younger musician, who sat in a chair thickly padded with blankets and thumped dully at another keyboard. These two-Professor Camillo Baucia, "champion marathon pianist of Europe," and B. G. Burt of Jamestown, N. Y., U. S. champion-had been playing continuously for over 52 hours. They had played all the tunes they knew; the pianos were going flat; only...
...Pittsburgh at the leading hotel, an "Anti-Prohibition Enlightenment Dinner" was held by the local branch of the National Association against Prohibition. Congressman John Philip Hill of Maryland, discussed a bill he will present 1) to repeal the Volstead Act; 2) to have each state define for itself "intoxicating liquors" referred to in the 18th Amendment, and enforce its own laws on the subject; 3) to have the Federal Government punish any person guilty of transporting into any state liquor more potent than therein allowed, the punishment to be ten years' imprisonment...