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...President Coolidge don his frock coat, silk hat and cane and fly with Lindbergh...
...Coolidge. The candidacy of Senator Willis is a phenomenon arising full-bodied from the Harding legend and native pomposity. It has no significance outside the borders of Ohio, where it serves only as a frock-coated obstacle (composed half of the Anti-Saloon League and half of what was once the "Ohio Gang,"* ) in Candidate Hoover's way. Far more obstructive to Hooverism was a meeting last week in Manhattan of G. O. Politicians who professed to believe that President Coolidge might yet be forced to run. Among these professionals were National G. O. P. Chairman William Morgan Butler...
Benediction in Georgia is a dark room in a prison. Near a table at the left a man in a frock coat is standing with his arms stretched out toward convicts who are sitting along benches. There are faces of anger, or despair, or ennui, or terror. A Negro looks at the floor hard, as if he were trying to remember something that made him sad. He is wearing a chain around...
...mind has not pealed since 1915, when Joseph Little Bristow ceased to be a U. S. Senator from Kansas after six tempestuous years. In the mild-mannered gentleman who now farms and sells lots on the outskirts of Washington it is hard to find the bristle-lipped, bead-eyed, frock-coated orator of 15 years ago of whom it was said (then) that "no man better personifies the insurgent spirit of Kansas." He helped split the Republican Party for Theodore Roosevelt. Of the Six Irreconcilables (the others were Senators La Follette, Cummins, Beveridge, Dolliver, Clapp) he, a veritable Irate Citizen...
Silk-hatted, frock-coated, begloved, bespatted M. Bogomolov arrived in Warsaw to present his credentials to Polish President Ignatz Moscicki as Soviet Minister to Poland. A company of Polish soldiery accompanied the new envoy to the presidential palace...