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...clean aromatic smell of raw pine wood spread through the White House. Excelsior littered the floors. Busy workmen in overalls came and went. Mrs. Coolidge was packing. Into 150 new boxes, crates and barrels under her careful eye went objets d'art, china, books, whittling knives, stag antlers, desk sets, etc. etc.- symbols of a people's free-handed affection for their President. Eight Coolidge trunks entered the White House in 1923; 16 trunks will go back to Northampton, Mass., not to mention all the barrels, boxes, crates. "It is," President Coolidge remarked, "easier to get into...
...retail price of a box of matches is fixed by law at two lei (1.18?) for 1929, but after July, 1930 will be jacked up to three lei (1.77?). Royalties approximating $3,000,000 annually will be paid to the State, and the Trust agrees to retain Rumanian workmen in the local match factories. Legislation embodying these momentous arrangements was voted, last week, by the Rumanian Chamber of Deputies...
Twenty miles from London stands an historic hill and on it stands an historic Cathedral. Its dark cruciform shape lowers over the countryside, its Norman towers stretch sadly to the sky. It was in the 12th century that workmen first piled stone on stone to fashion the Cathedral of St. Albans. Since then many workmen and architects have rebuilt, altered and toyed, but the Cathedral still stands much as it was first planned by an abbot who wished to honor a martyred saint...
...dinner by Fola La Follette, daughter of the Senator and wife of Playwright George Middleton. But Jo Davidson did not appear. From 7 o'clock in the evening until 4 o'clock in the morning he kept a cold vigil by the entrance of the Anderson Galleries while workmen gingerly engineered his ponderous statue through a portal which was almost too narrow...
...sale of liquor have gone on practically undiminished: I do not agree to any such statement. It can scarcely be inferred from President Lowell's statement that "Prohibition has no doubt done good. It has abolished the saloon; it has diminished the absence from the factory of workmen through drink, the waste of their wages on liquor, and the consequent suffering of their families." How could these things be if the drinking of liquor has gone on practically undiminished? Respectfully, Professor T. N. Carver