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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Governor Hunt is known as a great humanitarian. As governor he has never signed the death warrant of any fellow human being. He transformed the State prison from a place of horror into a university, had the prisoners examined medically and treated in line with modern scientific knowledge. He developed a splendid system of roads throughout the State. He made the big corporations obey the safety laws in the mines and reduced mine accidents to a negligible quantity. He has been absolutely fair to labor. He has been constructive and forward-looking...
...watched a light go on, made speeches. The light-lighter was, of course, President Coolidge, button-pushing in Washington. To President George Hannauer of the Boston & Maine R. R., President Coolidge telegraphed: ". . . The building is a credit to your company and the city." ¶ In consideration of $15.50, the State of Virginia issued a nonresident hunting license to Calvin Coolidge. Col. E. W. Starling of the Coolidge staff conferred with Game Commissioner Major A. Willis Robertson in Richmond, ..about a Presidential bird shoot, over fine-nosed dogs, at Swannanoa Country Club in the Blue Ridge Mountains the two days following...
...this year the cheering in the Union has been unconvincing. One hesitates to fix the blame for this state of affairs, but the fact remains that last Saturday afternoon the Living Room was so quiet that a pin could be hear to drop, and this on the day of the last game in Cambridge. But from the very decadence of a past may spring the fertilization of new growth; let every man bear these words in mind when he takes his place among those who nourish fond hopes with absent treatment. And as the ball goes tearing down the grid...
...Singing Fool (records everywhere), Wings ($7,000, Valencia, Baltimore), Two Lovers ($24,000, Loew's State, Providence), Lilac Time ($11,000, Metropolitan, Washington...
...Earl of Birkenhead, Great Britain's retired Secretary of State for India, last week, was appointed a director of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd., of which Britain's Chemical Tycoon Baron Melchett is head. Director Lord Birkenhead will receive an annual salary of $10,000 plus one-half of one per cent of the profits. Last year this percentage would have represented more than $100,000, since I. C. I.'s profits were...