Word: openness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Blue Room, decorated by Mrs. Coolidge and their son, John. This was the first time that there have been Christmas trees in the White House since the death of Calvin Coolidge Jr. Later the Presidential family gathered upstairs with Mr. & Mrs. Frank W. Stearns of Boston to open their presents.* Before going to the Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, the President read some papers and worked on his Trenton speech. In the evening, Attorney General & Mrs. Sargent and others arrived for dinner. A 30-pound turkey was carved...
...last moments of the campaign the Premier's son, Oliver Baldwin, roundly declared: "England is nearer to revolution than ever before!" To this Premier Baldwin replied through his daughter Betty, who drove the Conservative candidate about Smethwick in her open two-seater, electioneering in his behalf. Said she: "I hope what little I could do counteracted to some extent my brother's words...
...President of Nicaragua (TIME. Nov. 29). The President was riding alone in his carriage at 11 p. m. when two men armed with machetes rushed upon it from an alley. Quick-witted, Senor Diaz leaped out of the left-hand door of his carriage as the men wrenched open the right-hand door. A machete hurtled, split the leather of the President's left heel, bit into his flesh. The coachman, faithful, sprang from his box, fell upon the attackers. Maddened, they felled him, slashed off his hands, his nose, gouged out his eyes. . . . As policemen arrived...
This sideshow life impressed him finally as no commerce for a man approaching middle age. So he journeyed to St. Louis, opened a gasoline station for himself. This was a real business; a man was more like his fellows . . . turning the pump crank, making change. But when he would stoop to open an oil cock, his hanging plait of fat interfered. He decided to rid himself...
...Very few of my customers knew I was a minister until they read a news story. . . . No one has tried to take advantage of me because I am a preacher. . . . Strictly cash basis . . . the store is open for a short time on Sunday. . . . I have lots of calls for malt and other articles used in making home-brew . . . do not handle them. . . . I'd like to see sharper teeth put into the [prohibition] law . . . only $1,100 is still owed on the $4,000 building . . . membership of my church has grown in three years from 18 to 125 . . . religion...