Word: sented
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Citizen Coolidge arrived at the Union Station at 7 a.m. President Hoover sent his secretary, George Akerson, to greet him. They drove to the Willard Hotel, Citizen Coolidge did not register. He shook hands with his old friend Mack Vogel, elevator operator. On the third floor he entered suite No. 328, the one with light blue and gold decorations, which he had occupied free of cost as Vice President. Here he breakfasted with his one-time secretaries and bodyguards. Afterward came callers?Senator Smoot, Secretary of Labor Davis, Tariff Commission Chairman Marvin, Federal Farm Board Chairman Legge, many another. They...
...some 60 newsmen were ushered into his hotel room. He had sent for them. In a well-fitting cutaway, Citizen Coolidge rose from an armchair placed behind a table, shook out his trouser legs, laid down his cigar holder, smiled. Then, without promptings or interruptions, he proceeded to interview himself for minutes while newsmen blinked their astonishment at his garrulity. Regardless of its other merits, what he said was worth $2,000 at the prices for which he now writes about himself. He began...
Later in the afternoon Citizen Coolidge called again at the White House, this time to convey to Mrs. Hoover "the message of love and good wishes Mrs. Coolidge sent." That night, a thoroughly contented man, he took a train back to his Northampton retirement...
...Capitata. The Board has done some preliminary relief work on the citrus fruit situation in Florida where the ravages of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Halterophera capitata) had created an acute local problem (TIME, May 6 et seq.). Two competing fruit cooperatives appealed for the Board's help. The Board sent them away with a promise of help after they had merged their efforts, eliminated duplication, become representative of all Florida fruit growers in trouble...
...Small roads, owned by industries, sent their cars far over big lines, offered little transportation in return...