Word: mountains
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...steep mountain trail slowly moved a wagon drawn by two horses, each adorned with American flags. In the wagon sat Mrs. Coolidge. Behind the wagon, pushing it vigorously, came President Coolidge. Sweat poured down the President's face; his coat was off, his vest had climbed up, announcing the fact that the President wears suspenders. The presidential party was on its way to the summer camp of Samuel R. McKelvie, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska. The last few miles of the journey were made in wagons and when the horses became wearied the President joined those who added...
...known as Volcano House) built on the side of the mountain. For some time, however, he has been away on a volcano-studying mission in Alaska. Natives maintain that Pele has grown fond of Dr. Jaggar and that the eruption is her protest against his absence. In support of this theory they say that when, in 1924. Dr Jaggar left Hawaii for a visit to New York, Kilauea promptly became rampant and that its last previous outbreak (1925) came while Dr. Jaggar was traveling in the Orient...
...last week, spoke Chief Scout Daniel Carter Beard, 77, founder of U. S. Boy Scouts, at the Boy Scout camp near Bear Mountain, N. Y. Among his listeners were Governor Alfred E. Smith of New York, Governor John E. Martineau of Arkansas, Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut, Barron Collier, August Heckscher, Will H. Hays, Edward F. Albee, William H. ("Big Bill") Edwards, General Robert Lee Bullard, and some 800 Boy Scouts...
WHEREAS, The tonic atmosphere of New Mexico is tired nature's sweet restorer and its civilization as old as yesterday and as young as tomorrow and its history crammed with antiquity and artistic interest as well as with grandeur of natural scenery, of mountain, and plain...
...American League of professional baseball clubs. He was the dominating factor in the control of organized baseball from 1900 to 1927. Last week he-President Byron Bancroft Johnson of the American League-turned in an obviously dictated resignation to close ingloriously a notable career. His defeat left Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (who occupies in baseball a position analagous to that of Will H. Hays in the cinema industry) unchallenged as baseball's dictator. Ever after Commissioner Landis' appointment (in 1920, following bribery in the World's Series of 1919) there was rivalry, warfare between the new baseball...