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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...train arrived at the Grand Central Terminal in Manhattan at 7.45 p.m. People cheered. He lifted a brown fedora hat in response. He went to room 1423 (a $25-per-day suite) in the Hotel Commodore, adjoining the station. There, barricaded against the world, Calvin Coolidge attended to private business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Private Business | 4/1/1929 | See Source »

...Friday, they leave Boston on their special train, to continue the trip, which will include most of the large cities of this country and of Canada...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATES TO ADDRESS AUSTRALIAN GROUP TONIGHT | 3/27/1929 | See Source »

...boys composing the tour are all approximately seventeen years of age, and travel resplendent in uniforms, marching upon occasion accompanied by their own band. A special train consisting of three Pullman cars, one club car, and a baggage car, has been employed during their journey...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AUSTRALIAN STUDENTS WILL VISIT UNIVERSITY | 3/26/1929 | See Source »

...Coolidge. Thus were the Coolidge record for silence, and the Coolidge respect for the dignity of office, kept unblemished. Thus did Editor Long cash the publicity of his surprise at practically face value. Contrary to early reports, the first instalment of the Coolidge article was not written on a train between Washington and the Bok bird sanctuary in Florida which the President pilgrimaged to dedicate (TIME, Feb. 11). The train saw the birth of instalments three and four. The first instalments were written earlier, in Washington. When Editor Long received the manuscript from the hands of President Coolidge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Great Mystery | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

...remained for Mussolini to cap the climax. In the Decalogue of the Young Facist there are incorporated ten commandments that almost reach the magnitude of a Napoleonic gesture. The purpose of these ten requirements is to train good Italians to be good Facists, and if these rules are obeyed, II Duce will have succeeded in resembling Napoleon to an even more gratifying degree. Anticipating some of the difficulties that might arise from the rather unusual sternness of the pronouncement, the Italian youth are not to object to being confined to prison, for the Dictator assures them that any such punishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BUT THE BOY GREW UP | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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