Word: alto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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William Thomas Scholarship of the Harvard Club of San Francisco, F. A. Copley 1G, Palo Alto, California; Harvard Club of Chicago scholarship, W. K. Maxwell, Jr. 1G, Chicago, Illinois; Shelton Bale Scholarship, J. F. Rich 1L, Woonsocket, Rhode Island; Rutherford B. Hayes Scholarship, S. G. Silverman 1L, Cleveland, Ohio; Herbert Parker Scholarship, G. D. Reilly 1L, Dorchester; Robert T. Swaine Scholarship (1926), J. R. Bentley 1L, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Williston-Beale Scholarship, R. S. Grossman 1L, Chicago, Illinois; class of 1913 Scholarship, O. Fendler 1L, Manila, Arkansas; Taplin Scholarship, J. A. Anderson, Jr. 1L, West McHenry, Illinois...
...Hoover canvass closed with a triumphal trip across the continent to vote at his Palo Alto home?a formality new to the Republican candidate. There he received the returns which, by the greatest electoral college majority in U. S. history, transformed Nominee Hoover into President-elect Hoover. Tears of joy and gladness coursed down his plump cheeks under the California stars. Next came the South American goodwill trip, a prelude of grandeur during which Mr. Hoover tasted the sweets of sovereignty. Back in the U. S. he busied himself with Cabinet carpentry in Florida, fidgeted impatiently. And then that cold...
...second important time in three years that Herbert Hoover had seemed to shout Dry and whisper Wet on Prohibition. Historians recalled that confidential explanations were found necessary after the famed "experiment-noble-in-motive" speech at Palo Alto. It was hastily explained then that Nominee Hoover's attitude was "laboratory...
...route. Radioman Hoover designed the system and supervised the installations until tuberculosis laid him low. But it was carried to completion by his No. 1 assistant and childhood friend, pink-cheeked, modest John Curtis Franklin, 26. "Jack" Franklin and "Herbie" Hoover, close neighbors, attended grade school together in Palo Alto, Calif. As high-school students during the War they had "ham" (amateur) radio stations in their houses, would shout excitedly across the street to verify what signals they could pick up. Both boys entered Stanford University where Franklin's father, Professor Edward Curtis Franklin, is famed as an organic...
...Like Woodrow Wilson, President Hoover objects to such family publicity. He considers the private side of his life and of those about him something in which the public can have no legitimate interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren-to make a formal appearance before the talking newsreel cameras on the White House lawn...