Word: altos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Newsgathering curiosity was further piqued by the arrival at Palo Alto, just after Col. Donovan got there, of that other equally famed Assistant Attorney-General, Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, "personification of Prohibition." In view of the Hoover promise to appoint a commission to investigate the "grave abuses" now suffered by the "experiment noble in motive," newsgathering speculation ran to unanswered questions like this: Was the President-Elect asking Mrs. Willebrandt to tell Col. Donovan all she knew about Prohibition so that the redoubtable Colonel could make plans for stricter enforcement? Or was this conference preliminary to a great "Hoover...
...Cornell, Leipzig, Paris. He had the scientific method that Hoover valued and was developing. While Hoover engineered in far parts, Scientist Kellogg stayed at Stanford, collaborating with Dr. David Starr Jordan, teaching classes, gaining a quiet renown. There were Hoover-Kellogg reunions whenever the wandering engineer returned to Palo Alto. In 1915 the engineer sent a call to Palo Alto and the quiet scientist went to Belgium to be a willing Hoover man for six years. Dr. Kellogg is not likely to be called over to the Hoover administration from his Potomac-viewing office in the Academy of Science-unless...
...impression that Palo Alto went Hoover without opposition was erroneous. Town, and some gown, kept up a vigorous Smith campaign. Librarian Van Patten in charge of the voluminous Hoover War library, went to the non-partisan reception to home-coming Mr. Hoover, wearing the biggest Smith badge he could find...
...Herbert Hoover watched Stanford beat Santa Clara in Palo Alto...
News of Dr. Kolster's latest invention developed last week as work went on to set up an experimental station near his Palo Alto, Cal., home...