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...into the Union Station at Washington, and Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge descended the car steps to the porter's rubber cushioned stool, there were three smiling faces looking up at them from the platform. There was the chubby face of the Secretary of Commerce; there was the long, lean face of the Secretary of Agriculture smiling from beneath its domed forehead; and there were the stone-chiseled features of the Secretary of State. He too smiled as he waited there, his head thrust forward over his little dark-suited body, his gray fedora held in one hand...
...mining is resumed. The total pay distributed to the 157,400 men was $15,600,000?the largest amount ever disbursed as wages by the industry in one payment, showing how production was speeded in the final fortnight, as the men desired to have extra cash for the coming lean weeks. On every pay check the operators had printed...
...Cleveland, 200 ambitious, attentive young men, about to be sworn in as attorneys, listened to the words of a grim jurist in a shovel-tail coat-a gentleman whose pointed head, lean yellow face and sardonic lip bristle gave him a Mephistophelian air, but whose words were admonitory, noble, penetrating. He-Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall of the Ohio Supreme court-was flaying the professional ethics of Clarence D arrow, famed champion of Leopold, Loeb and the Ape. Said he, referring to the Scopes trial (TIME, July...
...aged golfers, bunting their balls in a hollow of the course of the St. Louis Country Club, were startled by the sudden apparition of a figure on a distant hill. Cut against the sky, there was nothing in the silhouette (it was that of a lean youth in golf clothes, carrying a club in his hand) that would itself have caused alarm. But instead of the measured stride of the golfer, this youth employed a furious, irregular lope. Suddenly, without a waggle, in a pause that hardly broke his stride, his club described an invisible arc; several seconds afterward, pushing...
Outside afterwards he was cornered by reporters and asked what he had learned. But the Texan, lean of face was lean of words on the topic. He talked a little though. He recalled the day several summers before when he had drawn the first draft of the Leauge of Nations Covenant at Magnolia under the direction of his good friend Woodrow Wilson. He said that eventually the U.S would have to become an "associate member" of the Leauge and adhere to the World court. He hoped that the League question would never more be dragged through the arena...