Word: sons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been the first courageous enough to invite her. ¶On the 21st birthday of John Coolidge, the President stayed away from the Executive Office in Rapid City in order to celebrate the occasion. No birthday presents were in evidence, so newsgatherers stated that the President had given his son a large check. Also it was said that John Coolidge, on becoming a major, received a property grant from his grandmother's will. In the afternoon the three Coolidges were photographed with the 75- cavalrymen who have acted as summer White House guards. In the evening the President & Mrs Coolidge...
...governor, with the proposition that one James E. McDonald be appointed prosecuting attorney of Marion County. This office was vacant because Mr. McCray had just been indicted in the criminal courts for a financial felony, and Prose- cuting Attorney Williams P. Evans had resigned, being Mr. McCray's son-in-law. 2) That Ed Jackson offered the indicted Governor $10,000 cash and a guarantee that he would not be convicted for his felony, in return for Mr. McDonald's appointment. 3) That Mr. McCray refused Mr. Jackson, his cash and his immunity, appointing instead to the vacant...
...month ago John Early, leper, escaped from the Government lep-rosaria at Carville, La. When he reached his home in the North Carolina mountains, his mother, gay at her son's return, refused to tell Federal officers his whereabouts (TIME, Aug. 22). Matt Early, the leper's brother, found a hiding-place in the hills; there, for over three weeks John Early remained, his hideous, white, terrified face peering through the brambles for men he knew would come. In his hands he held a rifle...
...laymen wondered if the legendary difference between the English sense of humor and the American might not have colored Psychologist Aveling's conclusions. Is all laughter "ugly . . . hard . . . selfish?" Is a father "ugly" when he manifests delight at the cunning or courage of his small son ? Is it "selfish" of children to chortle and bubble when the magician yanks the rabbit from the hat? Are those people "hard" who sometimes burst out laughing even when they are all alone, for no reason that they could tell you except that "it seems so good just to be alive...
...violent explosion. An engineer staggered on deck, his face broiled, clothes hanging in sooty tatters. The fire, racing aft, drove two half-dressed women out of their cabin. They were badly roasted stumbling to the wharf. A man with a dory rescued the captain's young son from where he was marooned on the burning quarterdeck...