Word: york
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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United Press Associations, New York City...
...motionless sitting, the President gave place to Mrs. Coolidge. She in turn sat very still, looked at the eyebrows, was looked at by the eyes. Eventually the results of these sittings, these lockings, will be portraits of President and Mrs. Coolidge, exhibited in the new building of the New York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Manhattan. The owner of the eyebrows was Frank O. Salisbury, "painter laureate of England...
...Brazilian army. Came plans from African, Asiatic, Oceanic missionaries; from Connecticut tobacco-chewers, from Pittsburgh gin-millers. Came plans from "sorrowing mother," "drunkard's widow," "rum runner's deserted wife." Came also a plan from Major Chester Paddock Mills, onetime (1926-27) Prohibition Administrator for the New York City district. Last week the awarding committee, headed by President-Emeritus William Oxley Thompson of Ohio State, University,*finished its judging, announced its decision. The winner was Major Mills...
Observers recalled that Major Mills resigned from the Prohibition service after his transfer from New York Administrator to Eastern Zone Supervisor, and that this transfer followed charges of third-degree method used by Major Mills' subordinates. Resigning, Major Mills complained of political interventions and described his office as "the most difficult and thankless position in the Federal service...
...Southeast is increasingly accessible. By rail, Jacksonville is only 25 hours from New York, 35 from Chicago, 36 from St. Louis. Miami is about eight hours further. A half-day nearer the North are Pinehurst, Camden, Asheville, Aiken, Augusta, where the Southeast begins. One can take ship from Boston to Charleston or from New York to Miami or Savannah. ¶ Southbound golfers often head for the places where their favorite professionals hold forth. At Pinehurst are Donald and Alec Ross; at Augusta, Dave and Alec Ogilvie; at Belleair, Alex Smith. Gene Sarazen is at New Port Ritchey, Fla. At Miami...