Word: altos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heart warmed by a Presidential farewell, and perhaps stimulated by foreknowledge of a Presidential blessing he was to receive en route (see p. 7), Herbert Hoover set out from Washington to Palo Alto, to vote for himself and be voted for. At Cumberland, Md., he paused and spoke again about Prosperity. One aside in this speech revealed the political flair which he had seldom been suspected of having. Spying some of the train crew in the crowd he said: "I think I ought to tell them I am grateful to them. . . . I have come to think of this strip...
Married. Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur, son of Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, who is president of Leland Stanford University; and Ruth Jordan, San Francisco scionness; in Palo Alto, Cal. Herbert Hoover Jr. was best man; his wife matron of honor...
...President Coolidge received a five-months-old thoroughbred setter puppy, by name "Palo Alto," as a gift from Claire Wildner, Superior realtor. He was told that that the flecks of color on the dog's coat were called "ticks...
Rested and notified, Nominee Hoover once more became the busy Beaver Man. He concluded his conferences with managers at Palo Alto and set out, via the Southwest, to explain further to the Midwest what he means to do about "the most important obligation of the next Administration"-farm relief...
...printer, in greatest confidence. Back it came in long strips of type. He showed it first to William Joseph ("Wild Bill") Donovan of New York. He showed it to a few others. And again and again he read it all through to himself, in his Palo Alto study. Safe to say, that, years hence, he will associate that speech far more closely with that room than with the stadium in which it was for the last time voiced...