Word: personally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Biography, which will contain 20 volumes when completed. The first volume contained no Coolidges, going only from "Abbe" to "Barrymore." Subsequent volumes will be published at the rate of three per year, but President Coolidge will not live to read about himself in the Dictionary of American Biography. No person or personnage is given space therein until he is dead...
...State Department forwarded a resume of diplomatic issues, present and potential, between the U. S. and countries to the south. Also furnished was an official adviser and personal representative of President Coolidge, in the person of Henry Prather Fletcher, the U. S. Ambassador to Italy. Mr. Fletcher, a longheaded gentleman of 55 years, has been in the diplomatic service since 1902. He was five years Minister to Chile (1909-1914). From 1916 to 1920 he was Ambassador to Mexico. He was Under-Secretary of State during the first year of the Harding administration, then went to Belgium, then to Italy...
...grid-graph a matter of blind chance reason enough for palliation. Certainly the Union authorities should consider the welfare of the knights of the pen who daily make possible clear-cut analyses or accurate exposition of the events so vitally important to many of those unable to attend in person. The cost of alteration in comparison with the confidence that the Union does not lag in the move no matter how great will be moderatement toward better press boxes...
...Manila, General Malone will find the Governor General in the person of Henry Lewis Stimson, who was Secretary of War under President Taft,* and will salute the Headquarters Commander in the person of Major General Douglas MacArthur, twice wounded, twelve times decorated veteran of Vera Cruz and France...
...Student of chemistry, physics, biology, his scientific mind repeatedly comes to the rescue of emotions that have been too quick to accept a new theory. Honest, he is not afraid to satirize opinions he himself has passionately held. His wit is sharpest when he is in a temper (in person or in print), but he is a good listener and efficient host-unusual virtues for a man of genius. At 62, his intellectual vitality is almost equalled by his physical energy-his father was a professional cricketer...