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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement has caused much comment as to its cost and who is footing the bill. Much secrecy prevails as to the method of circulation. The literature bears the mark of Flint, Mich., and mostly is put into the rural mail boxes at the crossways, under doors and into small town letter boxes during the night. . . . "All the stuff is much the same . . . holds out the most amazing threats of devastation and disaster which will come to the nation if the Pope wins control of the Government . . .and contains the most vicious and lurid attacks on the Governor, assailing...
...expanded for the benefit of the world . . ."-from President Coolidge's proclamation of November 29, 1928 as a day of general thanksgiving and prayer. ¶President Coolidge received the trustees of Lions International convening and sight-seeing in Washington. Also, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Fairbanks, who were in town trying to adjust a $1,090,273.56 back-tax dispute with the Treasury Department. Mrs. Fairbanks (Mary Pickford) did the conferring. Mr. Fairbanks wore a beret, played golf...
Boston had been big-town gloria in excelsis! But now the Derby was skimming out into the chill dew of New England's rural Republicanism. There were fears lest it emerge bedraggled. So the Smith Special hurried until it reached Blackstone, one of Massachusetts' most safely Democratic cities. There "safe" throngs throated the governor as he embarked on an experiment shrewd in motive. He would leave his train and motor to Providence, R. I., through the mill towns of the Blackstone Valley which are traditionally Republican, French-Canadian, wet and Roman Catholic. Let the human test-tubes boil...
...same time Dean Hanford called attention to the General Laws of Massachusetts, Chapter 54, Section 92, which state that an absentee voter within this state is one who is separated by at least two municipalities from the city or town where he is a registered voter...
...sorts of plays. Since 1914, she has not played in the U. S.; then she was on her second husband, now she has her third. Her present U. S. appearance, while it pleased many, pleased, especially pleased, St. John Ervine, visiting London critic, who was reminded of his home town so happily that he wrote a glowing tribute to Fay Compton while he clawed Olympia and Author Molnar...