Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...being foreclosed on a broken-down Indiana onion farm which President Coolidge was given "for an unrendered service to agriculture." There were bills to be signed-$6,792,000 for Army Housing, $125,000,000 for new Federal buildings throughout the land. People were already agitating about the next "Summer White House" and suggesting places as exotic as Hollywood, Calif., despite the President's known feeling that he should stay near Washington this summer. There was also the Jardines' dinner, which President Coolidge had to attend alone, Mrs. Coolidge not feeling well enough, after her cold...
...brought an opportunity to strike for Czechoslovak freedom. As to just how this vital group was formed Professor Masaryk is regrettably a trifle reticent. He barely mentions by their last names a few of the men who aided him, then hurries on to the statement that "toward the Summer of 1915 . . . my authority was . . . recognized on every hand" among Czechoslovaks...
...Engles, manager of Schumann-Heink, Taliey, Paderewski, Heifetz, estimated that the U. S. spends 20 million dollars for music each year. His budget allots six millions to the 13 major symphony orchestras, three and a half millions to the Metropolitan and Chicago Opera Companies, the rest to individual artists, summer concert orchestras, a few minor opera companies. Grade A box-office attractions, according to Manager Engles, are Pianists Paderewski, Hofmann, Rachmaninoff; Violinists Kreisler, Heifetz, Elman, Yehudi Menuhin; Singers Schumann-Heink, Garden, Farrar, Jeritza, Galli-Curci, Taliey, Ponselle, McCormack, Chaliapin, Gigli, Schipa. Their gross receipts amount to some three millions...
Since 1921 he has devoted his entire time to travel, study, and lecturing on the Central European nations. Last summer he made his fourth visit to Germany, and tomorrow evening he will show the films and slides which he took at this time...
With business conditions as they are at present, it is doubtful whether the office will be able to place all men who come to it for summer work. This will be particularly true in the case of men who put off registering until late in May or June. For this reason, the office urges all men desiring such jobs to register on or before March 15, and then keep in close touch with it, if they wish to secure desirable positions. These registrations may be effected at any time between 9 and 5 o'clock daily...