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...President, took a pledge to Phi Gamma Delta, fraternity to which Coolidge senior belongs. ¶In honor of Mexican Independence Day, President Coolidge sent a telegram to President Obregon expressing "cordial felicitations and fervent wishes for the continued prosperity of your great and friendly republic." ¶ Following a cruise aboard the Mayflower, the President telegraphed Secretary of the Navy Wilbur to hasten back from a vacation in California. When the Secretary arrived, the President intrusted him with the job of forming a commission to evaluate the Navy's needs in regard to aircraft, submarine, surface craft, in order that...
...Coolidge attended the first inning of a baseball game between local police and firemen, then went aboard the Mayflower to spend the week-end with political counselors and the report of the Tariff Commission on sugar...
...cause of King James to restore the Stuarts and to make Master Ormerod "my Lord Duke of Jedburgh, Marquis of Cobbielaw, Earl and Baron Broomfield." Unfortunately, Master Ormerod has no stomach for piracy, cares nought for dukedoms and is thoroughly incensed at the idea of bringing aboard a pirate ship an innocent maid, the daughter of an Irish colonel who is a follower of King James and who helps to set the trap for the treasure ship. But Murray has his way. The Santissima Trinidad, laden to the waterline with bullion, falls victim to the pirates off Hispaniola. From...
...stimulate, by every governmental activity, the progress of the cooperative marketing movement. . . . "To secure for the farmer credits suitable for his needs. "This .is our platform." He boarded his train once more and went on, while the metaphorical announcer called: "All aboard for Denver, Cheyenne, Topeka, Bunceton, Des Moines and Chicago!" Meanwhile, in the East, the rather ineffectual Clem L. Shaver sputtered that he expected LaFollette to get about 70 electoral votes in the West. Some Democratic campaigners set the number even higher. They admit it cheerfully. "This," they say, "means that LaFollette is weakening Coolidge. LaFollette having the West...
...Abolition of cheap Asiatic labor aboard British ships...