Word: programs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Custer, S. Dak., went the President and Mrs. Coolidge, saw there a pageant representing scenes in Black Hills history from the time when the Great Spirit set aside the region as a place of particular beauty and sanctity. The most spectacular part of the spectacle was not on the program, but came when two horses scheduled to stage a runaway from a covered wagon attacked by Indians ran in earnest and evaded cowboys posted to round them up. Toward the packed crowd surrounding the field galloped the horses. Mrs. Coolidge covered her face with her hands...
...While Senators and Representatives wrangled about tax reduction (see below) President Coolidge has arrived at his own conclusions on the question. No "Mellon plan" is expected to be presented to Congress this year, nor is there to be any form of out-and-out Administration tax program. It is understood, however, that the President has "recommendations" to make, chiefly that the tax reduction should centre upon cuts in corporation taxes. The President does not contemplate reduction in the taxes paid by earners of small incomes, but believed that automobile taxes should be lowered, possibly from 3½% to 2%. He also...
...only partially commuted by being changed to life imprisonment. Hunger Strike. Both Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti spent the week virtually without food, having begun a hunger strike which, in Mr. Sacco's case, was still continuing at last reports. Hunger eventually conquered Mr. Vanzetti's starvation program. During the first two days of their abstention from food, Prison Warden William Hendry inclined toward the belief that only the hot weather and lack of exercise were responsible for the prisoners' fasting. By the third day, however, this hypothesis became rather untenable, and discussion turned to the possibility...
Public Opinion. The flood district looks to the Federal Government for a flood-prevention program 'that will definitely prevent a recurrence of this spring's disaster. Proud, the people have almost without exception accepted food and money from the Red Cross with hesitation and apparently with shame, though certainly their destitution has been none of their making. Neither have they set up any loud clamor for Congressional grants of money or supplies, although the feeling that they have been more or less forgotten by the rest of the country has undoubtedly been a growing sentiment. Said State Senator Scott McGehee...
...blank cartridge fire; bathing girls put on a "battle"; the American Legion Drum & Bugle Corps played "music"; hired Indians played as natives; a hotel thief took $400 from Tom Nokis, president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America, while he slept; a pickpocket took $210 from D. Edward Gibbs, program director of the International Advertising Association, while he was awake. "Howdy"* was the greeting, "Yippee" and "Yowee" were countersigns all the week...