Word: stated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sows are a hen, three hens are a hare, two hares are a wolfhound, and two wolfhounds are a cow." This might be continued: "Two cows are a salmon," which would make the approximate value of an Irish florin 48c and not $2.91 as you state. Greetings...
TIME'S description of the new Irish Free State currency must stand corrected, in the light of subsequent dispatches, on two points: 1) Subscriber Mellor is correct about the salmon; 2) The "cow"' is a bull...
...Coolidge asked the Senate to appropriate $5,000 for the purchase of an oil portrait of himself to be hung in the White House. The procedure is customary with outgoing Presidents. Hungarian Artist Philip A. Lazlo de Lombo's suave, briskly painted Coolidge portrait, which now hangs in the state dining room, seemed a probable choice. Other famed Coolidge portraits are by Frank 0. Salisbury, "painter laureate of England," for the New York Genealogical and Biographical Soci ety, Manhattan, and by Ercole Cartotto, adroit Italian. The Cartotto Coolidge is soon to be hung in the Manhattan clubhouse of President Coolidge...
...East Room of the White House shimmered and twinkled with bright uniforms, emblems, medals, pomade. Two thousand were present. When it was over, Mrs. Coolidge leaned on the arm of the President, said farewell to scores of the guests. Thus, with a state reception in honor of the Army & Navy, ended the social program of the Coolidge administration...
...battle against alcohol. No mean gen eral, he could fight on two fronts, upward in the church, onward against politicians. Both battles culminated last year in un qualified personal victory. In politics, he undermined the Byrd better-government organization in Virginia, which endorsed the Wet Smith, and put the State in the Republican columns. For this activity he was declared last week to be the man who had done most for Religion...