Word: 31st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reasonably doubtful that the nation would have voted the 30th and 31st U. S. Presidents into office so enthusiastically if those gentlemen had previously changed their official names to J. Cal Coolidge and Herb C. Hoover. Nonetheless a stream of important visitors, interested in helping make a 33rd President of the U. S., made their way during the past fortnight to the door of the Kansas Governor who was christened Alfred and now calls himself Alf. In the Press the kind of build-up which experienced partisans know how to produce for a favorite made the Landon name loom larger...
Encouraged by the hope that over-confidence will dull the edge of the Princeton attack, a vastly underfavored Crimson eleven will tackle the Tiger in his lair at 2 o'clock this afternoon in the 31st meeting between two of America's oldest colleges...
...party who regard him as a discredited liability. Last week came a golden opportunity to flay the former, assert his titular party leadership to the latter when Young Republicans from eleven Western States met 1,200 strong at the Scottish Rite Temple in Oakland, Calif. It was the 31st President's first strictly political speech since he left Washington. It was also the first formal forensic broadside of the Republican Presidential campaign. And Herbert Hoover rose...
...when she was playing a 17-year-old, freckled-faced tomboy named Patty Berg, whose father persuaded her to take up golf three years ago, hoping it would make her lose interest in playing football on a neighborhood boys' team. Four down when the match reached the 31st hole, Minneapolis' Berg had suddenly won two holes in succession, halved another and dropped a 15-ft. putt on the 34th green for a par 4. Now, if Philadelphia's Vare missed a tricky six-footer, the match would stay alive and chipper little Patty Berg would have...
Politicians, certain of Herbert Hoover's desire to re-enter the White House, were sure that the 31st President of the U. S. was trying to make political capital out of a major division of public opinion on New Deal policy by showing himself 1) "liberal" in that he accepted the 59? dollar as an accomplished fact and 2) "sound" by advocating resumption of specie payments. When newshawks caught up with him at Chandler, Ariz., Mr. Hoover gave his own reason for his act: "I felt it was my duty...