Word: rapider
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senator McMaster failed to see the President on the first day of his arrival at Rapid City, because the President was visiting a Government Indian school (where he asked the Superintendent if the little Indian girls did not get homesick sometimes). The next day, however, the Senator asked the President to call on some of the South Dakotan cities in the eastern part of the state and the President took the invitation under consideration...
...hours ahead of time in the Black Hills. The clock in the State Lodge kitchen was also running on Eastern time. Thus the President, rising at 7 a. m. by his watch, rose at 5 a. m. by Black Hills' time. He has on several occasions arrived at Rapid City ahead of his staff; and his secretary, Everett Sanders, now goes to bed at 8:30 p. m. (Mountain Time...
...President, in Rapid City, took a telephone receiver off its hook, called Washington, D. C., got his connection in three seconds. The time was said to be a new record for the distance?some 2600 miles...
...second in importance, tax reduction in his opinion, being first. If Mr. Tilson, who was born in this valley, would come down here and look at this desolation, these wrecked homes, and talk with these ruined farmers, I think he would change his mind. He made this statement at Rapid City. I hope he did not speak for the President...
...China's future, but certain facts are evident at this time: 1) The revolution's deep-rooted permanent effects are changing the political and social characteristics of the people; 2) There will probably be several governments in China for a long time, as size and complexities impede rapid unification; 3) It is of no advantage for foreigners to attempt to impede the revolution or to interfere with the normal development of any one of the various governments by not recognizing it or recognizing only its opponents; 4) Nanking, possessing the wealthy background of Shanghai, seems momentarily the most...