Word: swampscott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Coolidge received a letter from John L. Lewis stating that the bituminous operators had broken their contract. In your zeal to keep up your reputation for giving information in short paragraphs, you failed to mention that this is the same Coolidge who on July 19 assured the newspapers at Swampscott that he "has determined to prevent a coal strike." The strike came, as we all know, and "the little calm, cool man" had the same remedy as usual to suggest, "nothing." And you failed to mention that...
Married. Miss Margaret Carr, one of the White House cooks, to Jerry Shea, chauffeur to Frank W. Stearns, famed intimate of President Coolidge, at Swampscott, Mass...
...Little did the President know of the full consequence of his action, the involutions and convolutions of human destiny, of life and - death, that hung upon the event when he set out to Swampscott last June (TIME, June 29). Now he knows at least in part. For when he went, one of his train was Miss Margaret Carr, a cook who had flipped him many a fine wheat-cake and other delicacies. She returned to Washington two weeks ago still in the President's train. But last week it became known that she was leaving, going back to Swampscott...
...Coming from Swampscott (cool weather and heavy underwear) to Washington (hot weather and summer gear) the President hurried to consult his throat specialist as a precaution against developing his recurrent "rose fever...
...Yacht Mayflower sailing home from Swampscott with the presidential silver, china and servitors, making her way across Massachusetts Bay toward the Cape Cod Canal, was almost rammed by the liner Martha Washington. The Mayflower cut across the liner's bow and the Martha Washington was obliged to order full speed astern...