Word: altos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pennsylvania Ave.?inspiration of patriots, aspiration of statesmen, shrine of all good U. S. citizens?whither Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif., will move on Monday? was first called "The President's Palace," then "The President's House." Not until 1814, when it was repainted to hide its British fire scars, did it become "The White House...
...Penney had traveled from Oregon to Palo Alto, Calif., and had personally offered the Penney home to Mr. Hoover as a vacation spot. This generosity was undoubtedly stimulated by the admiration of like for like. Mr. Penney, like Mr. Hoover, followed a stressful, impoverished career to a felicitous climax. James Penney is now 54. His father was a Missouri Baptist parson. James was the seventh of 12 children. At the age of eight he earned his own clothing with a piggery, a watermelon patch. He ran a small store where the currency was pins. Stores of various kinds have occupied...
...Durant contest also included a special School Prize of $5,000, won by Malcolm D. Almack, Palo Alto high school student. To Hoover Townsboy Almack goes $1,000; to the high school $4,000. The Almack plan dealt chiefly with the necessity for educating the U. S. public to a fuller appreciation of the Prohibition law, its terms, its meaning, its sanctity...
Evenings, there was open-air cinema. Cecil B. De Mille had flown up from Hollywood before the Hoovers left Palo Alto to offer 50 of the industry's proudest new productions. The offer was accepted and the Maryland's tars came in, with the Hoovers, for special viewings of Clara Bow, Emil Jannings, Marion Davies, Janet Gaynor, et al. The film titles ranged from Three Week Ends (Paramount) to Felix in Jungle Bungle (Educational...
...authorized by Congress in 1924 and now abuilding, six had been named-the Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Chester, Chicago, Houston, Augusta. Last week, Secretary Wilbur named a seventh, for obvious reasons, the Northampton. For the eighth ship, a building in Puget Sound, Pacific Coast Republicans urged the name Palo Alto. Iowans protested it should be the West Branch...