Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Upon the centre of the rainsoaked grave of Flier Floyd Bennett in Arlington National Cemetery was laid a wreath of ferns and calla lilies sent by President Coolidge. Two days later President Coolidge went to the chamber of the House of Representatives and gazed, during a state funeral service, at the catafalque and bier of his dead friend and Flood Control spokesman, Representative Martin Barnaby Madden of Illinois...
...received the first "buddy poppy," inaugurating the pre-Memorial Day drive of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. . . . President Coolidge pressed a button and lit the new Lindbergh airway beacon across the continent in Los Angeles. . . . One of President Coolidge's ceremonial assistants (doubtless, James Clement Dunn of the State Department) phrased and sent a cablegram to Reza Khan Pahlevi, Shah of Persia, in which President Coolidge wished peace & prosperity to Persia on the second anniversary of Reza Khan Pahlevi's coronation. . . . Flowers from President & Mrs. Coolidge went to Mrs. Lemira Goodhue, first mother-in-law of the land...
...fourth inning rally which netted four runs proved to be the determining factor in Harvard's 5 to 1 win over the New Hampshire State baseball team yesterday afternoon...
...Wildcats could do no better than that, however, against the tossing of F. B. Cutts '28, who turned in a very creditable performance on the mound. Cutts kept the Granite State hits well scattered and, but for several notable exceptions, kept the losers well in hand...
Harvard's run-making was over, but the Wildcats' scoring was yet to come. In the eighth inning things began to happen which seemed to indicate that a New Hampshire score might be shortly expected. Lynch, lead-off man of the Granite State batting order, doubled, and MacFarland, a former Exeter player, advanced him to third with a pretty single. Cutts walked the next man on four straight balls, filling the bases, with no outs. Hoyt, however, field out to right field and Jones' throw-in picked a runner off second, making two out. Shea grounded out to the pitcher...