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...country, and especially its Republican politicians, spent the week recovering from what Pat McKenna, White House doorman since before Calvin Coolidge was even married, described as the greatest shock in all the 24 years of his official life. The shock had come gently to Mr. McKenna at that. Before he broke his rule of a quarter-century and stuck his head into the President's office to see what went on, he had been forewarned of some portentous happening by a sharp burst of ejaculations from within. Mr. Mc-Kenna's head entered the President's office just...
Sequelae. 'Doorman McKenna was obliged at once to stand aside and let 15 frantic newsgatherers go tearing and tumbling down the corridors of the high school to transmit the twelve-word shock to an unsuspecting world...
...TIME, May 11, 1925. At the time Chancellor Churchill had just re-established the pound on a gold standard, and reimposed the McKenna duties on foreign imports, a reversal of Mr. Snowden's policy, felt by him to advantage chiefly the rich...
This, too, was seen in Boston earlier in the year. Helen Hayes gives a superb performance, and Kenneth McKenna, supporting her, gives a poor one. She is so fine, however, that she needs no support. The play represents Barrie at his best...
...later became the first Agent General of Reparations. Henry M. Robinson was a member of "Committee No. 2," which decided how much Germany could annually pay, and told "Committee No. 1." This second committee was chairmaned by onetime (1915-1916) Chancellor of the British Exchequer, the Right Honorable Reginald McKenna. Europeans did a major part of the work of both committees. General Dawes was important for his curt, dynamic generalship...