Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...escape the heat of a Washington summer, the President went to the Black Hills. Last week, however, to the Black Hills came a hot spell; showed temperatures higher even than in the East. While Washington thermometers read 88° and New York's 84°, those in Rapid City danced about 96°. Even the trout stopped biting, and, though the President made no complaint of the heat, he discarded his coat and sat shirt-sleeved on the State Lodge porch. From the heat waves rose rumors, unconfirmed, that the President might shorten his western visit, leave...
...Outside the schoolroom which serves as the President's Rapid City executive office runs a corridor. In the corridor is a bench on which sit those awaiting a presidential audience. On the bench one morning last week sat a Wyoming dirt farmer, his wife, his daughter. From ten o'clock until noon they sat, patient, vigilant. On the stroke of twelve the President came out of the office, bowed to the trio, passed on. Called the farmer to a nearby Secret Service man: "Is that the President? 'Well, come on, Mandy; now we can say we seen...
...When President Coolidge was mayor of Northampton, Mass. (1910-11) he and Mrs. Coolidge could frequently be seen driving home from a shopping expedition, their car loaded with provisions purchased by Mrs. Coolidge. The same sight was last week seen in the streets of Rapid City, as Mrs. Coolidge had again become her own housekeeper. For Miss Ellen Riley, who came out from Washington to act as housekeeper at the State Lodge, fell ill, was sent to Rochester, Minn., for an operation. Instead of appointing a temporary successor, Mrs. Coolidge herself assumed the duties of directing the State Lodge domestics...
...When tourists, natives, other unofficial persons near Rapid City chance to meet President Coolidge,. he returns their greeting with a polite bow, does not usually stop and chat with them. He broke his rule, however, for the sake of a stranger encountered on the steps of the Rapid City High School, temporary White House office. The stranger wore a hat wider even than the President's ten-gallon fishing headgear. In his silk shirt and flowing neckerchief clashed vivid colors. He wore high-heeled, embossed riding boots bearing the letters "put" in white just below each knee. Not even...
...cities and towns have City Manager governments of one type or another. Cleveland, with a population approaching a million is the largest City Manager municipality (City Manager, William R. Hopkins). Other outstanding examples of the City Manager system are: Sacramento, Miami, Kansas City (Mo.), Dayton, Cincinnati, Grand Rapids, Norfolk, Fort Worth (Tex.), and in Canada, Montreal. Rapid City, S. Dak., summer home of the U. S. Government, also is a City Manager city...