Word: retreat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Under The Presidency, TIME, Feb. 25, you mention the proposal to convert Mount Weather, Va., into a weekend retreat for future presidents. You state that this property is 55 miles from Washington "over fair dirt roads." This is news to your readers who live on the main road between these points and who travel daily over the paved State highway which covers the greater part of the distance. Between Leesburg, county seat of Loudoun County, and Bluemont at the foot of the mountain, there remain a few short stretches of "fair dirt roads" broken by stretches of paving through...
...blast of dynamite the last standing vestige of old Fort Sackville at Vincennes, Ind. The blast was a dud, so the building had to be burnt. The other button-push opened a new bridge across San Francisco Bay); a signed bill appropriating $48,000 for a presidential weekend retreat;* his achievements, chief of which he mentioned to newsgatherers as follows: 1) "Minding own business"; 2) Prosperity and tax reductions; 3) The Kellogg Peace Treaty ;† 4) Improved Mexican relations; and a radio "goodbye to all of you . . . hope that you will all enjoy the future as much as I have...
...Louis Globe Democrat which first agitated for the Presidential retreat, President Coolidge telegraphed congratulations and said: ''The Congress has shown an inclination to treat a President with the same kind of consideration it extends to our birds and other wild life...
...refund item lost in deadlock on the first deficiency bill, also voted 230 to 125 against the appropriation of $24,000,000 for Prohibition enforcement; struck out provisions for two additional $10,000 secretaries to the President and for repair of Mount Weather, Va., as a Presidential retreat...
...raise the rediscount rate), but taken altogether they gave nervous speculators chills & fever. On Friday call money went from 6½% to 10% and the whole market went off in a sharp decline that continued through Saturday's closing. There was nothing resembling a panic but the orderly retreat was rapid, sustained, unchecked by short covering...