Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Polk was the first to marvel at gas illumination (1849). Mrs. Fillmore installed the first bath tub and cook stove in 1851. The stove brought protests from her Negro cook who preferred the huge open basement fireplace with its cranes and hooks. In spring and summer the Fillmore family moved over to higher Georgetown, "because the marshes between it [the White House] and the River made malaria inevitable." President Pierce first benefited from a central heating plant...
...calling to present his credentials? Major Domo Hoover will warn President Hoover what time to go upstairs and wait. When a military aide appears, escorting the Ambassador, Major Domo Hoover will put them in the Green Room, go aloft again to bring the President down to the Blue Room, open the Green Room door, bow in the Peruvian, wait, lead the Peruvian out to his motor, bow him away...
...There can be no excuse for the complacent violation. . . . There are only two honorable courses open to us: either modify the law or squarely face the sacrifices . . . of enforcement. The third course is the policy we, as a nation, are pursuing: namely, to keep the law regardless of whether it is enforced or not. This is . . . nullification...
...Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and the Empire's choicest assortment of Industrial Tycoons marshaled by their dean, Baron Ebbisham, President of the Federation of British Industries. The guests were met?or thought they were?merely to toss off a few champagne toasts to the British Industries Fair, which would open next day in London. But no sooner had Edward of Wales risen and begun to speak, than the Tycoons realized with an unpleasant shock that they were in for one of the most thoroughgoing rebukes ever administered to rich old men by a young heir apparent...
...government considers that Seņor de la Mora is in open rebellion, since the place in which he keeps himself is not even known, and that he is one of the probable directors of the armed movement of Catholic fanatics in the State of Jalisco...