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...midst of all, burst Teapot Dome. Albert B. Fall, Secretary of the Interior in Mr. Harding's Cabinet, was cast in the shadow, if not of crime, at least of grave impropriety in dispensing leases of the Naval Oil Reserves. The Senate went into "hysteria"; the scandal drove two members, Denby and Daugherty, from President Coolidge's Cabinet (TIME, Mar. 17, April 7). But Mr. Coolidge, either indecisive or unwilling to be hurried, was slow in bringing about changes...
...thing that saved the day for the Blue was Pond's forty-eight yard run for a touchdown in the opening period. With Yale in possession of the ball at midfield, Pond drove at the Army's right tackle but ran into a nest of waiting Cadets. Shaking these off, he broke to his left, stiff-armed two more tacklers and raced the remaining distance to the goal line...
Trevvett put the Crimson in the lead in the first period when he took Crook's short pass from the right and drove the ball past the Cornell goal-guard...
...Early one bright morning, Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge stood on their thresh- old. Up drove automobiles, out piled twoscore laughing, talkative guests. Everyone shook hands and then Mrs. Coolidge said: "Let's go in to breakfast." Immediately the President offered his arm to a tall, deep-voiced, blonde young lady named Charlotte Greenwood and led the party into the state dining-room. Mrs. Coolidge took the arm of a dignified gentleman named Colonel Rhinelander Waldo, then spied a smiling man called Al Jolson and took his arm as well. Said she: "I want two partners for this occasion...
Newton Victor. Another harness-horse owned by Miss Scott, which beat J. R. Thompson's mare, Clyde Iris, for the Coxe Prize. Miss Scott drove in this event, with a scarlet flower brave in the black lapel of her habit, as she drove once in the past when the Earl of Derby was watching. "There," said that old nobleman, "there?God bless my soul?goes the finest driver I have ever seen...