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Word: take (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madison, Wis., a jeweler was set to work making a gold button which, when inserted in the Coolidge lapel, will signify that he, a nonresident of Wisconsin, is legally licensed to take fish from Wisconsin waters. Boy Scouts in Superior "chipped in" for a $55 fishing rod to give the President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Estivation | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

Someone recalled that President Grover Cleveland fished the Brule River in 1894, as the guest of the St. Paul Club. Antoine Denny, oldtime caretaker of the club's lodge on the Brule, was reported to be still at his post, eager to take care of another President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Estivation | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...theme was in a major key: "I have rejoiced in keeping down the budget. Since July 1, 1921, debt reduction amounts to $6,327,000,000 ... a saving in interest of $950,000,000. . . . The tide of the good fortune . . . seems not yet to have reached its flood. We take pride in our unparalleled prosperity. In July, 1921, more than 5,700,000 people were without work . . . at the present time the number is not much more than 1,800,000. Manufacturing . . . one-third higher than in 1927. . . . Iron and steel production more than twice as large. . . . Mining industries active...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 1921 V. 1928 | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...Then he said to me: 'Now really, don't you know that if Al Smith is elected President he will take his orders from Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Brown Derby | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

President Coolidge accepted last week the resignation of Robert Edwin Olds, 52, as Under Secretary of State, to take effect July 1. Mr. Olds had been a law partner of Secretary of State Kellogg in St. Paul, Minn. He will soon become associated with the international law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Olds Out | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

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