Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Washington, the party chosen to board the Coolidge Special for Brule grew to 60, to 80, to 90. The total number included newsgatherers and camera men, but did not account for Rob Roy (white collie), Terrible Tim (red chow), Diana (white collie), Bessie (yellow collie), King Cole (black police dog) and the five White House canaries, all of whom were going...
...Coolidge Special got up steam. Behind it, when it started, would lie a Capital devoid of newsful Governmental activity save for the Federal Trade Commission's lively but long-drawn investigation of the Power Trust...
...presents, laughed a lot and made jokes. Now and then he quietly put his arm around the slender, highstrung girl of 24, who, on the bright Saturday forenoon, became Mrs. Francis Joseph Quillinan. At the Albany Cathedral, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan performed the ceremony and transmitted a special blessing from Pius XI. Afterwards, a father's natural emotions on his daughter's wedding day were merged with the recurrent emotions of a Candidate. For besides the "boys" from Tammany Hall, many a bigwig Democrat was in Albany to toast the bride and smoke a cigar...
Astounding, the news of these shouts spurred the German press to put forth special edition after special edition. Almost proven was the cynical theory that all Germans, from Friedrich the Great down, have nurtured a suppressed desire to be understood and warmly approved by choosey Frenchmen...
...belief that a newspaper publisher should be free from any political ambitions. . . . The editor of the Democrat and Chronicle . . . will not have to obey orders ... so long as he is intellectually honest, sincere, fair, tolerant and clean. I do not care fundamentally for money . . . have no special interests ... no axes to grind...