Word: santas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ceaseless Shuttles weaving the fabric of international goodwill" was what John L. Merrill, president of the Pan-American Society of the U. S., called ships as the new Grace liner Santa Barbara sailed for Havana, the Canal Zone and South America...
Midlanders wondered about the people Nominee Smith had around him as he passed through the land on the private car "St. Nicholas" (called "Santa Claus" by the newsmen). Most of the people who accompany Hoover have national reputations. Most of the Smith "traveling cabinet" needed introduction...
James J. Hoey was another outstanding figure on the "Santa Claus." He rose to his present position of vice chairman of the national executive committee via the New York Legislature, where he and the Nominee worked together as young men. Big-framed, self-confident, breezy, generous. 50 years old but much younger in looks, he reflects his Western upbringing more clearly than his New York nativity. His Tammany connection has not overshadowed his reputation as a humanitarian, a framer of public school legislation, a philanthropist whose chief work is the Boys Club Federation, of which he is the national president...
Contractor William F. Kenny, owner of the "Santa Claus," burly, bluff, unpolitical, is the prime exemplar of what is meant by friendship with the Smith circle. He would give "his shirt" (estimated to be worth 40 millions) but no advice to the man whom he has known since they played together in the late Kenny Sr.'s firehouse...
After leaving Santa Barbara, Captain Coleridge of H. M. S. Durban radioed to the Associated Press as he steamed toward the Panama Canal and Bermuda: "I should be obliged if you would note that all press reports concerning his Royal Highness Prince George during the visit are without foundation and are unauthorized." Seemingly this blanket statement was intended to smother an A. P. story that H. R. H. had split his trousers in Santa Barbara, while performing the "varsity drag...