Word: pined
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, these Manhattan gossips had difficulty in finding domestic tribulations in the news that Mrs. Goodhue had arrived in White Pine Camp to visit the Coolidges for the remainder of their vacation...
...Political playboys at White Pine Camp, last weekend, began to inform their readers what President Coolidge was expected to say in his message to Congress three months hence. They announced that he would not say anything to cause a tremor in the business world, that he would not tinker with the tariff nor make any radical changes in the Clayton and Sherman Anti-Trust laws. Correspondents anticipate that the President will urge the enactment of Senator Fess' farm bill and General Andrews' prohibition enforcement measures; that he will oppose independence* for the Philippines...
...With his faithful guide Ormond Doty and Secret Service men, he drove 35 miles to Essex county, hiked through rugged woods to Ausable River. By 7 a. m., his boots were in the brook, his bait was on the hook. (In Franklin county, where White Pine Camp is, the game laws decree that trout fishing shall cease on Sept. 1, but in Essex county the deadline is Sept...
...President invites friendly political bigwigs, industrial potentates, labor chiefs, farmers' friends to White Pine Camp. They all go away, give out interviews, make speeches, whoop it up for "Coolidge and Prosperity." Last week came Howard Elliott (railroads), Earle P. Charlton (Woolworth, 5 & 10), Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York (on his second prosperity loud-speaking this summer...
...Among them: Edsel Ford (autos, airplanes), Harvey Firestone Jr. (tires), Patrick E. Crowley (railroads), Julius Rosenwald (mail orders), A. J. Brosseau (trucks). The statements of these and other magnates concerning the undeniable prosperity of the country have received wide publicity because made in connection with a visit to White Pine Camp. Long after the magnates have returned to their less conspicuous affairs, the impression lingers that somehow President Coolidge is Prosperity. Last week, Mr. Coolidge announced that he would not take active part in the November Congressional campaigns, that prosperity was still the main issue. Political observers tend to agree...