Word: personal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ralph Beaver Strassburger. Mr. Strassburger is a person of some activity in Republican politics in Pennsylvania. When ho heard of the State Department's action he rushed down to Washington. He had an interview with President Coolidge and was doubtless respectfully treated. He had an interview with Secretary Kellogg and got no satisfaction. He told the Secretary of State that the Countess had canceled her lecture tour. He asked the Secretary of State on what grounds Countess Karolyi was refused a visa. Mr. Kellogg replied that the State Department had confidential information and refused to disclose it. Mr. Strassburger...
...Friday, October 23, the dancing will start at 9 o'clock and continue until 2 o'clock. The price of admission for Friday evening is four dollars per person. On Saturday, the dancing will start an hour earlier, beginning at 8 o'clock, and the music will continue until midnight. Tickets to Saturday's dance are $3.50. Both prices include tax surcharge. Tickets are being sold at the Copley-Plaza in Boston, and may be procured in Cambridge at the Crimson and Lampoon buildings...
...Said The New York Times: "This person's name should have protected him. It seems to come from Pilgrim's Progress...
...Boston Transcript was reminded of a quiet man, still (presumably) knocking about the world somewhere, "who at the age of about 50 made up his mind to spend the rest of his life in studying at various universities. . . .This person first took the course at Paris and then went on to Vienna, with the intention of going on to Jena and Heidelberg after that, and of eventually bringing up at Oxford or Cambridge. . . . He must be a sort of Wandering Jew of erudition, with the important difference . . . that he goes around the world happily instead of miserably, and may leave...
...found a band of other notables-a rear admiral, an Army colonel, a U. S. Senator, various fellow state officials, a squad of Bowdoin College alumni, a Chicago banker, officers of the National Geographic Society. With one exception, they were all on hand to welcome and felicitate the same person, Explorer Donald B. MacMillan, whose stout auxiliary schooners were nearing the harbor after a summer in the Arctic...