Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...March to lead his party in the Senate: a successful election; a majority (on paper) of 16 Republican votes in the Senate; a Democratic opposition lacking a definite program; a new President, potent with the prestige of undistributed patronage. But even with these advantages Leader Watson, thought many of his fellow Republicans last week, made a poor fist of steering the Senate. Perhaps Leader Watson's troublesome week was partly due to the heat. In the Senate the temperature rose close to 100° F. In the House it was a comfortable 70° F. The House...
...first U. S. member of their race to be entertained in the White House proper since Oct. 18, 1901, when President Roosevelt had the late Booker T. Washington at his luncheon table.* After that occasion there was such a socio-political commotion that President Roosevelt thought it best to explain that Booker T. Washington had called while the President was just finishing his lunch and had been invited into the dining room "to save time." No such aftermath followed Mrs. De Priest's visit. In fact, almost before Washington started buzzing this time, George Akerson, the President...
...Rumsey jewelry was proved to have been purchased in this country, and was returned, though Mrs. Rumsey had to pay for having had some stones reset in Paris. For the finery she paid $7,600, bringing her complete bill to $8,783. Said Mrs. Rumsey easily: "I thought I had declared all ... my maid packed ... I neglected to check...
Chairman Requa hastened to reply that his words had been taken "too literally." Said he: "Any thought of coercive legislation is unthinkable." But the word echoed unhappily. From Washington came Senatorial rumblings that any policy of coercion would be "bitterly repudiated...
...century-old real estate dream came true last week in Baltimore. Back in 1828 Peter Cooper, Manhattan financier and philanthropist, of Cooper Union fame, and a group of Baltimore businessmen organized Canton Co., purchased Canton-a strip of land along the Baltimore water front for $105,000. It was thought at that time that the then-young Baltimore & Ohio R. R. would want the Canton district for a Baltimore freight terminal. No purchase was made, however, and for many years Canton remained comparatively undeveloped, its chief industries being cockfighting and politics. Shortly before the Civil War, Canton did become prominent...