Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...front of the ancient desk in the East Room of the White House stood a restless group of photographers in a little forest of tripods. Behind the desk stood a group of Senators, Cabinet Members, State Department officials. At the desk, of course, sat President Coolidge, in frock coat and wing collar. On his right sat Vice President Dawes, on his left, Secretary of State Kellogg, behind his chair stood Idaho's square-faced Borah and Virginia's militant Swanson. All eyes turned toward the green morocco case resting on the desk. It contained the Kellogg-Briand Peace...
...President and Mrs. Coolidge were host and hostess at their last state dinner, in honor of Speaker of the House & Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.* Among the 60 guests were Senator and Mrs. Robinson of Arkansas, Vice President-Elect Curtis, Governor Byrd of Virginia, Dr. Hubert Work, Mr. and Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler of Manhattan. At 10 o'clock came 100 additional guests. Mrs. Ruth Townsend-Petrovich sang; Rudolph Ganz played the piano...
...Secretary of State: Calvin Coolidge (but he might like eventually to be Chief Justice, succeeding William Howard Taft); Charles Evans Hughes (but ditto and he needs to make money). Possibly to be: Dwight Whitney Morrow (although Mr. Hoover seemed to have difficulty in coming to this conclusion...
...passed at a general meeting on Feb. 6, will make it possible for the club's members to thwart the election of women whose right to belong has hitherto been unquestioned. The amendment provides that the candidate must be indorsed by one or more members from her home state, must be approved by an Executive Committee of officers...
...Boston Herald published these facts, precipitated discussion in the legislature. State Senator James G. Moran was aroused. To him, Governor Fuller's action was suspicious, only seemingly generous. "You should not be misled into thinking," he stated, "that these checks have passed out of the control of the former Governor." He asserted that in the event of Mr. Fuller's death his executors would be compelled to include the checks as assets of the estate and collect the money from the Commonwealth...