Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, these Manhattan gossips had difficulty in finding domestic tribulations in the news that Mrs. Goodhue had arrived in White Pine Camp to visit the Coolidges for the remainder of their vacation...
...during the summer. Among them: Edsel Ford (autos, airplanes), Harvey Firestone Jr. (tires), Patrick E. Crowley (railroads), Julius Rosenwald (mail orders), A. J. Brosseau (trucks). The statements of these and other magnates concerning the undeniable prosperity of the country have received wide publicity because made in connection with a visit to White Pine Camp. Long after the magnates have returned to their less conspicuous affairs, the impression lingers that somehow President Coolidge is Prosperity. Last week, Mr. Coolidge announced that he would not take active part in the November Congressional campaigns, that prosperity was still the main issue. Political observers...
...Greensboro Daily News quoted from TIME: "You are struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper towers up, its facade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening." The News commented editorially: "While five million dollars are being spent on four buildings, not to mention...
...struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper (the Jefferson Standard Life Insurance Co., largest in the South, assets, $31,000,000) towers up, its façade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening...
...Stuttgart, Germany, the Burgomaster, Mayor, and officials of the town, together with numerous uncles, cousins, aunts, and more distant kinsmen, welcomed Gertrude Ederle, Channel swimmer. She will next visit her grandmother-Gertrude Ederle, 77-in Bissinger, where the old lady keeps bar in her own hotel, Lamb...