Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University of Virginia (Rep.) vs. University of North Carolina (Rep.)-President Coolidge (Rep.) will attend." The Colonel's companion was asking: "See any Democrats, Colonel...
...cruiser bill was urged ("I wish to repeat again for the benefit of the timid and the suspicious that this country is neither militaristic nor imperialistic"). Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government's handling the electric by-product "as private enterprise can very well fill this field." Again let the Muscle...
...Justice White of the U.S.* and, without flourishes, said: "There is nothing more natural than the purpose of my Government to maintain and improve the good relations." The Hoover reply was in kind. Besides orating about "cooperation" and "contacts," Mr. Hoover tried to define what he means by "goodwill" (see above) and mentioned two specific things for which Costa Rica may be admired-wide distribution of land and home ownership, and four times as many schoolteachers as soldiers...
Plans were made to interpolate in the Hoover itinerary after Lima a call on landlocked Bolivia. The Maryland was to halt off Antofagasta (Chile) and receive Bolivan officials on board. Chile, shocked and shaken by an earthquake (see p. 19) awaited with double eagerness the arrival of the famed U.S. disaster-doctor...
...See footnote to Jardine Report...