Word: standed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Speaker Longworth lit a cigaret in one corner of the stand. He had seen many such ceremonies. The Coolidge Cabinet, led by Frank Billings Kellogg (who will continue as Secretary of State until the arrival of Henry Lewis Stimson) took reserved seats well forward. The Chief moved up to the rose-decked reading stand among the microphones. Chief Justice Taft, in black robes and skullcap, moved to his side. Supreme Court Clerk Elmer Cropley handed the Chief Justice a small, new Bible, ribboned to Matthew 5 (The Sermon on the Mount). It was really raining...
Later the President, the Vice President and 800 others mounted the White House stand on Pennsylvania Avenue and there, comfortably glassed in, reviewed the Inaugural parade...
Takings. Mr. Coolidge took away ten pounds more of flesh than he had on going to the White House. He also took: an engraved golden gridiron from the Gridiron (press) Club; the official picture of his Cabinet autographed by each member; a microphone on a stand built to his measure by the National Broadcasting Co. (Mr. Coolidge, surprised by this last minute gift, said he could use the stand to take his breakfast on); and his final monthly pay check from the U. S. Government ($6,250); contracts to write articles for the Cosmopolitan and American magazines, and the Ladies...
...Boston, the new Secretary is called "The Deacon." His collar used to be of the high-stand-up kind; his cuffs are still stiffly white and detachable; his manner to strangers is austere...
...stump and sends out friends to scout for bearings. That is what President Hoover will do on Prohibition. In the campaign, voters asked him what his position was, what his plans were. Not sure himself, he replied: "I do not favor the repeal of the 18th Amendment. I stand for the efficient enforcement of the law. . . . Grave abuses have occurred. An organized searching investigation of fact and causes can alone determine the wise method of correcting them." Congress last week voted $250,000 "for such inquiry into the problem of law enforcement, including national prohibition, as the President may direct...