Word: altos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Plans. It was learned that Mr. Hoover planned to go to Brule on July 2 and spend Independence Day with President Coolidge. But this plan was abandoned when the President let it be known that he wanted no guests until August. The notification ceremony at Palo Alto, Calif., was tentatively set for August 10, the Beaver Man's 54th birthday. Then the date was changed to the last week in July...
With an oratorical toss of the head, the tall, ministerial figure stepped back from the lectern like one whose duty is, for the moment, done. That was John L. McNab's idea of how to introduce his Palo Alto, Calif., neighbor to the country...
...Secretary's secretary said that the Secretary would continue being the Secretary of Commerce probably until a few days after he had received the notification committee headed by Senator Moses in Palo Alto, Calif., early next month...
...installed to be sure of getting Kansas City clearly. At his home was another receiving set. He had worked all over the world at a man's work; given orders, reasoned objectively, sought no praise. Yet there he sat, listening for his friend, John McNab of Palo Alto, to make a speech about him; then for thunderous cheers, roll-calls of delegates, a flattering result...
...Minthorn heard about a university that Senator Leland Stanford was founding in memory of his son and namesake, down in a meadowy place called Palo Alto, near San Francisco. Nephew Herbert went there, immature, shy, curly-headed, precocious at 17 except in English. Professor John Branner helped him become a prodigious geologist. Also, in that first class at Stanford University, Herbert Hoover had his first taste of politics...