Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...character of the students who come to the Forest for advanced work or research is also significant. Of the five who are registered for 1927-28, all are men from established positions in state or federal service, two from experiment stations and three from executive or extension departments. These five represent as many schools of forestry: California, Minnesota, Pennsylvania State, Syracuse, and Maine. At the last Commencement seven degrees were given, six masters in forestry and one doctor of science. These men also were from widely scattered localities and were in general capable of doing productive advance work...
About 29 miles away (northwest) is Superior, Wis., on Lake Superior. There, in the high school, will be President Coolidge's office. Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin swiftly promised to mend the red clay roads in the northwestern corner of his State. Six miles from the Lodge is Brule, a five-street village (unpaved) inhabited by 200 Finnish fishermen. Four miles beyond Brule is Lake Nebagamon and the Congregational Church and Rev. John Taylor. Mr. Taylor is blind, uses a Bible printed in Braille. Perhaps Mr. Taylor will be taken for a cruise on the Navy cutter that will...
...Bills about pensions, Indian lands, medals, rural mail boxes, corn borers, the Gila River, military camps, monuments, State relief, bridges, salaries...
...largest scale in the U. S., assured President Coolidge that the farm "crusade" (see p. 13) was an unjust political ruse and fiction. . . . Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow was an interesting White House caller. The President passed a whole day hearing about Mexico. He called in Secretary of State Kellogg to hear too. . . . Vice President Dawes was an entertaining White House caller. He accompanied 15 other Republican notables to a Coolidge breakfast and made great sport of small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana for wearing a straw hat with his Prince Albert. When President Coolidge heard what the Vice President...
Next he took up disarmament, obedience to law, world peace. He called Secretary of State Kellogg's multilateral treaty work "one of the most impressive peace movements that the world has ever seen." In closing he quoted Abraham Lincoln's phrases, "of the people, by the people, for the people" and suggested that efforts for war-prevention were the best tribute to dead soldiers...