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...will be over the post of President pro tern. Because there is now no Vice President, the President pro tern of the Senate will be its permanent presiding officer. In addition he will have the Vice President's salary ($12,000, instead of $7,500), the Vice President's motor car, the Vice President's offices, and other perquisites. In short, the job of President pro tern has an entirely new and shining attractiveness...
...pass through the narrow strip of street between the subway station and the south sidewalk of Massachusetts where it intersects with Boylston. The congestion is further increased by the street cars, going both east and west, which stop near the subway entrance and often completely block the eastbound motor traffic which is fed into the Square by these three important highways...
...number in ten minutes. This was the revival of a custom of President Roosevelt. ¶ Mr. Coolidge was made Honorary President of the American Olympic Committee; was made Honorary President of the Gorgas Institute of Tropical and Preventative Medicine; told a delegation from the National Motorists' Association, " the motor industry has raised people up and has given them an entirely new outlook on life " ; pressed a telegraph key unveiling milestone marking the western terminus of the Lee Highway at San Diego, Calif.; prepared to receive a snow-white collie for the White House kennels, from Oshkosh, Wis. ; banished Peter...
...build 200 cabin cruising motor boats...
...simple -as it must be for a man piloting an airplane, who has to receive or send messages while continuing his trip. Throwing a switch and turning a large knob till an ammeter on the dashboard shows a maximum reading is the whole tuning up process. A motor generator set, driven by a storage battery which the engine charges just as an automobile does, supplies the necessary pressure of 1,000 volts. Two hundred feet of trailing wire, let out when the plane leaves the ground, constitutes the antenna...