Word: reds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Red Cross held its annual convention in Washington last week, and Mr. Coolidge had a message prepared. Said he: "The higher idealism, the true philanthropy is not that which comes to the rescue after the catastrophe, but rather that which through obedience to sound economic laws creates a prosperity among the people that anticipates and prevents the need of charity." (I The President and Mrs. Coolidge attended the wedding of Mary Elizabeth Sutherland, daughter of Alien Property Custodian Howard Sutherland, to Stanley Raymond ("Bucky") Harris, manager of the Washington baseball team...
...Said he: "The Republicans have been banking on Coolidge popularity but are now trying to sell the President personally to the country through a press agent-Bruce Barton-who is best known as the author of the book The Man Nobody Knows. This is simply an effort to draw red herring across the trail of the dismal record of the complete failure of the so-called 'Presidential program...
...tourist business of Florida. The Red Cross feels bound to go forward and do the job just the same, and everyone should help. Our officials on the ground report the greatest need since the San Francisco disaster. . , ." Governor Martin announced that he was "amazed" at such a charge...
...little yellow pamphlet, but Harvard men saw red. The Next President of Harvard: A Prediction, said the title. The author was that suspicious creature, a pseudonymity; in this case, "Dolopathos," meaning "Suffering Slave," or as more cheerful souls who had forgotten their Greek translated, "Bad News." The publishers were S. Baldwin & Co. of Cambridge, a non-luminous fact. "Abbott Lawrence Lowell, President of Harvard," read the first sentence, "will be 70 years old on December 13 of this year." What axiom could be more harmless? "He has occupied his high office for 17 years, has accomplished many striking and notable...
Also I venture to predict that Red Grange's team will win the big game in "One Minute to Play," and also that possibly Richard Dix's team will crash through in "The Quarterback...