Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement is now afoot in the South-west to call the structure Hoover...
This inquiry is not yet afoot, but President Hoover last week called his Treasury chief to the White House and told him what he wanted in the way of tax refund publicity. Mr. Mellon returned to his office, wrote a letter to the President recommending what the President had explained. Mr. Hoover then signed the necessary order...
Leaders of Congress, last week, set afoot preparations for the extra session of Congress called by the President to meet on April...
President Little saw incipient snobbishness in students who owned automobiles. Stories of accidents worried him. He prohibited automobiles from the Ann Arbor campus. Students protested, but stayed afoot...
...Union to watch the turn of the tide reflect on the grid-graph. Lesser considerations must stand aside as the backs go tearing by. Rarely does the Vagabond feel the urge of mob psychology, that inexplicable longing to go and do likewise, but stirring considerations like those afoot today whirl him willy-nilly to the Union. In connection with this subject the Vagabond finds that there are some interesting lectures which he recommends...