Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Coolidge sent a cable: "His Majesty, George V, Buckingham Palace, London-I am greatly pleased to learn of the distinct improvement of Your Majesty's health and trust that your complete convalescence will now be but a matter of a short time.-Calvin Coolidge...
...week this comeback was masterfully staged. Today Sir Joseph Ward is again "His Majesty's Prime Minister in New Zealand." This development, portentous, means that New Zealand has swung away from the intense conservatism and empire loyalty of Mr. Coates, to a judicious but advanced liberalism stopping just short of radicalism. The prolonged unemployment crisis through which the Dominion is still struggling probably accounts for this shift to the left...
...Orville Wright, whom the President extolled, was not present. A train derailment had delayed him. When he arrived and unobstrusively entered the conference hall by a side door, a short grey-haired man in a sack suit, the delegates rose and applauded. He smiled, said nothing, took a seat near Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Later in the sessions, when Col. Lindbergh was summoned to accept the bronze Clifford Harmon trophy, he was obliged to step over Mr. Wright's feet. Nothing was said. A moment later, Assistant Secretary of Commerce MacCracken called Mr. Wright to join Col. Lindbergh...
...Significance. Empress Alexandra Feodorovna was variously accused of misguiding her royal spouse, of sympathizing traitorously with her Vaterland during the War, of antagonizing the Russian aristocracy, and terrorizing the peasantry-in short, of causing downfall to the Russian empire. That this one woman should be held responsible for the inevitable revolt against centuries of abuse is patently ridiculous. But she served as convenient symbol-though less charmingly than Marie Antoinette...
With the new building under way two alternatives face the authorities, either the procuring of the needed $300,000 on short order from alumni or friends of the College or the substitution of a temporary roof for the fourth floor and its proposed basketball courts until a more favorable day. In case of the latter event, the University would at least have its much-needed swimming pool and the other two floors would relieve Hemenway sufficiently to be a blessing...