Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trace of informality in this letter from President Coolidge to Governor Fred Zimmerman of Wisconsin suggested the spirit in which the President's summer outing was being planned. White House familiars said that, whereas the President attended his Rapid City office five days per week last year, trips this year from Cedar Island Lodge to the office in the Superior, Wis., high school would be kept down to three or four per week...
Electricians swarmed through the cedar groves stringing telegraph wires and radio aerials. The U. S. Radio Commission notified Station WEBC at Superior that it might quadruple its wattage to assure good reception at the Summer White House...
...Clark, Physicians Coupal and Boone, and Colonel J. Osmun Latrobe (aide), all of whom receive public mention fairly frequently, the moving of the White Household reminded citizens of White Housekeeper (Mrs.) Ellen Riley and of Personal Stenographer Erwin Geisser, who transcribed the famed "I do not choose" last summer...
Before it adjourned for the summer (to meet again on Oct. 2), the Supreme Court of the U. S. handed down one of its terrific five-to-four decisions...
Miss Earhart is an experienced pilot, licensed in May, 1923, a former holder of the altitude record for women fliers, but Miss Boll was led to take up trans-atlantic flying last summer by the ambition to show New Yorkers her Parisian sweater woven from gold links. Lady Lindy flies in a trimotored Fokker, equipped with pontoons and two radio sets, while the Diamond Queen has chosen the single-motored Columbia, trans-atlantic veteran with no pontoons and no radio. Backing Miss Earhart are the advice of Commander Byrd, the promoting wisdom of George Palmer Putnam and the wealth...