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...train. Calvin Coolidge squeezed into a school desk over which his wife presides as schoolmarm. Calvin Coolidge in a cowboy suit, hoeing in a smock. Mah Jong. Marathon dances. Beauty contests. Rum row. Judge Webster Thayer leaving the trial of Sacco & Vanzetti. Automobiles being made. Superfluous automobiles being burned. Tin-can tourists in booming Florida. Women in khaki bloomers. Capt. Lindbergh at Mitchell Field. Gertrude Ederle. Aimee McPherson. A marriage in diving suits. A jazzband playing on the wings of an airplane. Prosperity. Herbert Hoover and Alfred Emanuel Smith. "A chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety...
...years Governor Haskell defied his own constitution. That document provided that Guthrie was to be the State capital, but a popular movement favored Oklahoma City. In the dark hours of a June morning Governor Haskell ordered his Secretary of State to put the State seal in a wheezing little tin-can of an automobile and drive it to Oklahoma City. Meanwhile the Governor chartered a special train from Tulsa. At daybreak Haskell and the seal were in a hotel room together, and by his proclamation, Oklahoma City became the capital...
...taken me a year to speak of it. ... But this is not the only reason I shall not write any more about Arizona. . . . The Game Commission and the Forest Service have gone over to the commercial interests. . . . The Grand Canyon on the North Rim is a tin-can gasoline joint and the hunting season is a shambles...
...21?Total eclipse of the sun: at Niuaffoou ("Tin-Can") Island, Tonga Islands, Pacific Ocean...
...21?Total eclipse of the sun; at Niuafoou ("Tin-Can") Island, Tonga Islands, Pacific Ocean...