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...President broke his rule against the acceptance of invitations to address public gatherings. He will speak at the annual meeting of the Ohio State Society in Washington on Jan. 29, the birthday of William McKinley. President Harding had agreed to address the Society two years ago on Jan. 29, but cancelled the engagement because it came at the time that the Knickerbocker Theatre collapsed in the Capital. Last year he again broke the engagement on account of Mrs. Harding's illness. This year the late President had again promised to speak. Chief Justice Taft called to ask President Coolidge...
...Coolidges took their weekly cruise aboard the Mayflower. Their guests included several progressives in Congress: Senator and Mrs. Frazier of North Dakota, Representative and Mrs. Dickinson of Iowa, Representative Graham of Illinois. Others of the party were Mrs. Herbert Hoover, Senator McKinley of Illinois, Senator Spencer of Missouri, former Senator and Mrs. Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Stearns...
Ball, Dela. Borah, Ida. Cameron, Ariz. Edge, N. J. Ernst, Ky. Fernald, Me. Grene, Vt. Keyes, N. H. McKinley, 111. Moses, N. H. Pepper, Pa. Phipps, Colo. Reed, Pa. Smoot, Utah Sterling, S. D. Wadsworth, N. Y. Warren, Wyo. Weller, Md. Howell...
...Union. the some 3,141 islands composing the Philippines, present a problem to our government every bit as complex as that which India presents to Great Britain. In 1899, not long after the Patriots' League demonstration of 1896, which resulted in the overthrow of the usurper, Aguinaldo, President McKinley appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. They reported a lack of education and "linguistic diversities," plus a Moro element, a small but violent portion of the total population which professed the Mohammedan religion in opposition to the Catholic...
Elihu Root of Manhattan, Secretary of War under McKinley, Secretary of State under Roosevelt, Senator from New York, 1909-1915. His diplomatic and political record is unequaled by any of the candidates, but he would probably be unwilling to accept the post at London, since he is understood to have refused it when approached by President Harding...