Word: roosevelt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Swampscott year he was very, very touchy. To this period belong the electric hobbyhorse and Alice Roosevelt Longworth's remark about being weaned on a dill pickle. Paul Smith's, N. Y., 1926. The 1926 vacation was the one of the great confession. Sitting in an old green wicker rocking-chair on an- Adirondack porch, Calvin Coolidge told Bruce Barton of his early life, his later thoughts. "As I now recall it," he said, "I had always rather hoped that I might keep store when I grew up. ... I have never been able to think that fate...
Five of New York's fields are in Manhattan's close neighborhood. Roosevelt and Curtiss fields are on Long Island, an hour from Manhattan rail and mail terminals. Hadley Field, at New Brunswick, N. J., is also an hour away; and the Teterboro, N. J., port is about the same time-distance. Newark, N. J., with its new, partially completed $7,000,000 port is some-what closer. All are inconvenient to reach. And that inconvenience impedes air travel and even mail service. Air mail is generally slower than train mail between Manhattan and Boston, Albany, Philadelphia...
...memories crowded at Mr. Root's elbow: McKinley's Cabinet meetings in that stodgy second-story room of the White House; the new Cabinet room, later, under Roosevelt. President Coolidge relished these recollections...
...American Merchant Line. The bids submitted were announced last month. High bidder was Paul Wadsworth Chapman of Manhattan, a daring and potent bond, real estate, public utility and air transport man. He offered: $13,782,000 for the six U. S. Liners (Leviathan, George Washington, President Harding, President Roosevelt, America, Republic); $2,300,000 for the five "Americans" (Banker, Farmer, Merchant, Shipper, Trader); $218,000 for pier leaseholds and sundries-total...
Field, Los Angeles, Cal., to Roosevelt Field, Long Island, N. Y., in 18 hr., 21 min., 59 sec., beating by 37 minutes the previous record held by Pilot Arthur Goebel. "I would have made it three hours sooner with decent weather," said Pilot Hawks. Beneath his heavy fur coat, Pilot Hawks revealed a neatly pressed business suit, well shined shoes, spats...