Word: send
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...pounds, insured for $25,000 and known as "Peter the Page," presented President Coolidge with a letter from the Lord Mayor of London inviting him to the British Empire Exhibition of 1924. Even the British are learning the art of getting free advertising. The President was obliged to send his regrets...
...decided to send the light cruiser Richmond, with Admiral Magruder, to Vera Cruz from Panama. Two days later the Omaha and six destroyers were ordered to follow. The Omaha and Richmond are two of the most modern and fastest units of the light cruiser fleet, commissioned within a year...
...success." Dr. Ben Spence of Toronto: "Canada is bounded on the south by the Volstead Act, but it's somewhat leaky." Senator Willis of Ohio: "If any one comes to Cleveland with a wet plank and produces it, we'll use it as a skid to send him into Lake Erie." W. J. Bryan: "No matter which party wins, this country stays dry forever." More than a thousand delegates to the convention assembled in a driving rain before the White House and sang hymns-Onward Christian Soldiers, etc. The President appeared on the portico and Pussyfoot Johnson pledged...
...called 'giving a fair chance to Labor.' It is no fair chance to Labor. It is no fair chance to Britain. It is a fair chance only to faction and manoeuvre." He advocated that the House should be fair to itself and to the electors and send an address to the Crown which, "if it expresses want of confidence in His Majesty's present Ministers, also records it repudiation of Socialism and its distrust of those whose policy of the capital levy and of nationalization of the means of production, distribution and exchange, has been so signally...
...form of application remains much the same as in former years. Groups of 6 or 12 couples comprise a box. All groups must elect a chairman and send applications to the Box Chairman, at 9 Bow Street, on or before February 15. Applications must be typewritten and should contain the names of the members of the box and their guests, arranged in alphabetical order but with the chairman's heading the list...