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...Wall, n-a-ow, Cal's a candidate sure enough-he's fixing up his fences," jested the village quipster as frantic cameramen from behind the deadline laid by secret service men watched the shirt-sleeved President uprooting rotten posts, nailing industriously. Later Head Secret Serviceman Dick Jervis was sent to market for victuals. As he was getting into his car Mrs. Coolidge called "Oh, Mr. Jervis, don't forget to get two pounds of string beans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Aug. 16, 1926 | 8/16/1926 | See Source »

...students at the famed University of Glasgow prepared to elect their Lord Rector,? no less a quipster than George Bernard Shaw drew his quill as an electioneer. To the Student Leader, a pamphlet issued by the Labor Club of Glasgow University, he contributed an article supporting for the rectorship his veteran friend of many Fabian battles, Sidney Webb,* sometime Labor Cabinet member and President of the Board of Trade. As the two other candidates were Austen Chamberlain, His Majesty's Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famed Author-Journalist, Mr. Shaw did not lack distinguished targets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shavian Pamphleteering | 10/26/1925 | See Source »

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