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...Passed a bill authorizing 10,000 silver half dollars commemorating the 150th anniversary of Captain Cook's discovery of Hawaii; sent it to the Senate...
...August the islanders will commemorate their sesquicentennial, the 150th anniversary of the landing of Captain James Cook. From the small beginnings of civilization sown by that great navigator a flourishing community of more than 250,000 souls has developed. Eight of the nine islands are now inhabited...
Last week, on what chanced to be the 150th legal anniversary of the U. S. A.,* the G. O. P. closed the bidding for its 1928 convention city. Ten cities had bid. Next fortnight the Republican National Committee will pick & choose...
...myth that President Coolidge was born in Vermont; neither is it a fable that Vermont celebrated the 150th anniversary of its independence last week. John Chipman Farrar, earnestly playful editor of the Bookman, composed an ode to commemorate the event. An excerpt...
...unto himself this extra-legal duty, as has many another President. The late Theodore Roosevelt used to dispense moral pap while he was tossing the "big stick," like a juggler chatting with his audience while his eggs are in the air. President Coolidge, however, in his speech on the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Trenton last week, confined himself to revolutionary history and morality. Excerpts...