Word: suits
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fort Myer, Va. Three Army hostlers went back to regular service. The sum of $15,000 was saved. These White House horses which nobody rode were quartered in the Army quartermaster stables at 19th Street and Virginia Avenue, N. W. In 1924 Calvin Coolidge, in a plain business suit and panama hat, once mounted a black charger named General, cantered through Potomac Park, was duly photographed for the campaign. Never again did he use a live horse...
Under the latest rulings an adequately equipped Freshman may now entirely anticipate his English and foreign language requirements. Guided by the rules for concentration and distribution, his four years in college are open for any advanced study that may suit his fancy...
...issued with his 16-year-old daughter Muriel from the house of his octogenarian father, he was attacked by "my wife, a large, strapping woman." He pushed her aside, dodged her chauffeur, one William Kiefer (named as co-respondent in Mr. Revell's suit for divorce) and sprinted. Near 5th Avenue a burly man caught and held him. Mrs. Revell caught up and renewed her attack with nail, fist, tooth, and then had Mr. Revell arrested for assault. Said he: "The incident was a stunt on the part of my wife to embarrass me and carry out her threat...
Some years back, when George Leon Loft, son of George W. Loft, famed "penny-a-pound-profit" candyman, was a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he appeared on the trading floor in a smart new spring suit. Knowing his reputation for being ready to buy or sell anything, friends of Mr. Loft surrounded him and began to auction off the suit. When the price reached $100, George said "sold." Into a telephone booth he stepped, removed the suit, tossed it out to the purchaser, remained in seclusion until another suit was brought from his home...
Last week this same Mr. Loft was busily engaged in trying to keep, not a suit, but a job. He is president of Loft, Inc., candy chain which for more than 50 years has been a Loft property. Now a group of stockholders is attempting to oust the Loft family (Mr. Loft Sr. is cruising in the Mediterranean) and elect as two of the eleven directors Mr. Otis Emerson Dunham, president of Page & Shaw, Inc., and Mr. Edward T. Williams, vice president of Page & Shaw. At a stockholders' meeting last week (reminiscent of the late Rockefeller-Stewart and Childs...