Word: summering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prizes of $100, $50, $25 and $15 are offered to college students by "The Nation", political and literary weekly, for the best accounts of their experience as workers in mining, agriculture or industry during the summer vacation...
Michigan. Alfred Owen Crozier of the National Republican Club contributed his summer home, "Wildwood on the Old Indian Trail," near Harbor Springs. Inducements: 300 acres; a new log cabin of Norway pine. Mr. Crozier said the President had termed his offer "most alluring" but that no definite decision had been made...
...President Zachary Taylor attended a fourth of July celebration in Washington. With the thermometer at 97°, President Taylor washed cherries down with ice water. A few days later the nation was in mourning for him. Presidents before and since Zachary Taylor have sought to escape Washington's summer heat. Last summer President Coolidge sojourned in the Adirondacks; in 1925 visited Massachusetts; in 1924 Vermont...
...tried my best to avoid these conversations and I told the head waiter at the club to see to it that I was not put with him again at meals." From Judge Thayer came only silence. He was said to be on a vacation, perhaps at his Maine summer home. Commenting on the new disclosures in the Sacco-Vanzetti petition, the New York World said: "What comes out of all these statements is a picture not of a judge but of an agitated little man looking for publicity and utterly impervious to the ethical standards one has the right...
...Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany. Herr Krauss, who looks more like a Spanish matador than an orchestra leader, has never visited the U. S. In Europe his fame is wide-as one-time guest conductor of the Vienna Philharmonic, as organizer of Wagner festivals in Vienna, Frankfurt, Salzburg. This summer he will be a leading figure at the 50th anniversary of the Wagner festival at Bayreuth...