Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time a Republican President had ever made a visit of any duration in Virginia. Crowds cheered the Coolidge progress through Staunton and Waynesboro to the Swannanoa Country Club, overlooking the Shenandoah Valley. Thanksgiving gifts poured up the mountain-a monster fruit cake, a dozen quail, a juicy Virginia ham, six boxes of apples, a monster turkey...
After services in the Baptist Church at Charlottesville-conducted by a Presbyterian, with a sermon by a Methodist * -the President shook hands with Governors Angus W. McLean of North Carolina and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia, who escorted him to the mansion of President Edwin A. Alderman of the University of Virginia for a buffet lunch. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson was there. President Coolidge twitted Governor Byrd about a cartoon in the Richmond Times-Dispatch which showed a Southern.Colonel peering through a knothole in the fence of a football field. A sign on the fence said: "Football, Thanksgiving Day-University...
Proceeding to outline the development of the fraternity from its small beginning at William and Mary College of Virginia, he said: "Until 1907, the Harvard Chapter elections were based entirely on student standings as evidenced in the records of the College office. At that time several changes were introduced. The custom of honoring specially eight men each year from the Junior Class was inaugurated. Twenty-two seniors were elected at the same time and provision was made for the electors to select later in the year five more students from the Senior Class whose mathematical records would not qualify them...
...press of the U. S. discovered, to its admiration and amusement, that President & Mrs. Coolidge had made a Sunday morning motor trip to Bull Run battlefield in Virginia, returning for a 2 p. m. lunch at the White House. The matter went unreported for 24 hours-a record in the Coolidge administration...
...called frequently at the office he maintained in Manhattan, at the Guaranty Trust Co. It was said of him that he "could have been the richest man in the U. S." He lived in Manhattan and at "Oak Ridge" on the site of his birthplace* in Nelson County, Virginia; and the middle name, which might have been his motto, was given him by his parents who died when he was five years...