Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Members of the Rotary Club of Rapid City, S. Dak., took luncheon seats one day last week, waited expectantly for onetime Governor Samuel McKelvie of Nebraska to address them on the topic of the beauty of the Black Hills. But Mr. McKelvie gave no beauty talk. Instead, he assailed onetime (1917-21) Governor Frank O. Lowden of Illinois for telling farmers that such federal organizations as the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Federal Reserve Banks were examples of what the government might, if so inclined, do for farmers. Mr. McKelvie was grieved to think that Mr. Lowden had supposed that...
...wagon sat Mrs. Coolidge. Behind the wagon, pushing it vigorously, came President Coolidge. Sweat poured down the President's face; his coat was off, his vest had climbed up, announcing the fact that the President wears suspenders. The presidential party was on its way to the summer camp of Samuel R. McKelvie, onetime (1919-23) Governor of Nebraska. The last few miles of the journey were made in wagons and when the horses became wearied the President joined those who added the strength of their arms to the progress of the caravan...
...left alive. They put away a bottle of Burgundy from which the Last Man should drink a toast to his dead comrades. They decided that in their dining-hall there would be 34 chairs, even when most of those chairs should hold no occupant. And they appointed Mrs. Samuel Bloomer, widow of the Company's color sergeant to be custodian of their battle flag...
...London last week were two potent U. S. preachers-Bishop William Thomas Manning of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of New York, and Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman, President of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America. Each was stopping over in London on his way to Lausanne, Switzerland, where during August they will attend the World Conference on Faith & Order. This conference, which will meet under the presidency of Bishop Charles H. Brent of the Protestant Episcopal diocese of Western New York, will try to improve sodality between Christian sects. *Bishop Manning who has come to seem dour...
Last week the power company took the initiative towards stopping Salmon Falls' economic decay. It is one of the companies that Samuel Insull of Chicago controls. Thus it easily found the $500,000 that it paid for the long idle factory of the Salmon Falls Manufacturing Co. Now it seeks a manufacturer to manage the plant...