Word: upping
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sir Walter Raleigh was in his prison composing the second volume of his History of the World. Leaning on the sill of his window he meditated on the duties of the historian to mankind, when suddenly his attention was attracted by a disturbance before his cell. He saw one man...
¶ Around the corner of 13th and Irving streets, N. W. swing heavy blue double-decked buses. There they stop, to start up again with a splattering roar of the exhaust. At that corner stands the Friends Meeting House where President and Mrs. Hoover worship. So loud were the bus...
Calvin Coolidge retired from the Presidency because he felt that no man could, in that office, give the people the best service for longer than eight years. He had been told that the Kansas City nomination was his for the taking. He felt that his re-election was "assured." Yet...
With deliberation he chose the fourth anniversary of his taking office to issue his South Dakota statement. He "chose" early enough to give the G. O. P. a chance to select his successor. He had, he said, no feeling that the no-third-term tradition applied to him, as he...
Not until his brother-in-law was nominated and elected Vice President of the U. S. did Mr. Gann's troubles begin. First he was brought in from the cozy Cleveland Park home to take up residence, with the Vice President and Mrs. Gann, in a twelve-room suite...