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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week President Coolidge designated it as his choice for a hot-weather week-end retreat for future Presidents of the U. S. He asked Congress for $48,000 to remodel it. It would not be a Summer White House, to which the President would move for a long stay. It would simply be a week-end retreat, an escape from the sticky heat of the low Potomac Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Retreat | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...give flying passengers convenience New York City authorities have commissioned Clarence D. Chamberlin to lay out a field on Barren Island in New York Harbor. Last week Barren Island was so far prepared that the Curtiss flying service made arrangements to move its headquarters ters there from famed Curtiss Field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Airports | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

Should U. S. housewives who fret over electric bills move to London they would find their worries considerably increased. For in Great Britain light costs an average of 13? per kilowatt hour, almost twice the U. S. average of 6.8?. Electric power, too, is much more expensive in London, costing 4? per hour in England; 2.16? here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Lights o' London | 2/25/1929 | See Source »

...Should an objector make trouble, the next move is 'smitzing the bogey to hinten' and 'noising the edge,' two procedures calculated to discomfit the objector and distract attention from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Like a Lord | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

...furnished by Walter's first wife and now is inhabited by her spirit. Florence wants to live in the East Sixties. Walter wants his western clients to be im-pressed with the Riverside Drive address, thinks Westerners are unaware of the smartness of the East Side. They are married, move to the East Side, buy new furniture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 18, 1929 | 2/18/1929 | See Source »

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