Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prohibition. Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, who is making a vigorous attempt to aridify his State, saw Mr. Coolidge and reminded him that President Harding had planned to call a conference of Governors on enforcement. Apparently President Coolidge did not commit himself, but he is known...
...That while the strike was brewing public sentiment was divided, but as soon as the strike took place sentiment shifted abruptly against the police, and that then, only when he saw the trend of public feeling, did Governor Coolidge act. The facts seem to bear out in certainty only one part of these charges -that Governor Coolidge had no part in quelling the disorder of the strike. The most reliable account of the strike available is the report of a committee of citizens appointed by Mayor Peters of Boston before the strike took place. Its report was not made public...
...President started by special train to Washington, where he arrived late in the evening. He and Mrs. Coolidge went to the Willard Hotel, which has been their Washington home. He held conferences on succeeding days in his old offices in the Senate building. He saw Chairman John T. Adams of the Republican National Committee, D. R. Crissinger (Governor of the Federal Reserve Board), Chairman Farley of the Shipping Board, Senator Cummins of Iowa, John Hays Hammond (Chairman of the Coal Commission), President Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor...
...even more brilliant as a personality. Tiring soon, however, of the Bohemian life of the Village she went to Europe with her mother. There she stayed, as a part of the American colony in Paris; then, for a time, in England. This Spring she again sought America. When one saw her, she seemed frailer than ever. It was rumored that she was ill. She left town and sought the wilds of Croton-on-Hudson. Visitors to the colony there did not see her. She remained in seclusion. Then, with no warning whatever, this writer of passionate, free, gayly cynical love...
...Manhattan, gives him a foothold somewhere below the niches of the famous. He may hoist himself upwards by other, more difficult performances. To those who rush with arguments regarding Leslie Howard, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacob Ben-Ami, Geoffrey Kerr, it need only be said that all of them first saw the sunlight and the footlights on the opposite side of the Atlantic...