Word: altos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace seemed the last thing the New Dealers wanted to grant him. Mr. Hoover vanished from the scene to Palo Alto. Mr. Stimson went inconspicuously back to his Manhattan law practice. Mr. Wilbur once more became active president of Leland Stanford. All the Hoover Cabinet was politically forgotten-except Mr. Mellon. For years the Democrats had yipped about his administration of the Treasury...
Biennially Calvin Coolidge used to board a special train, whisk off to Northampton, Mass., drop his vote marked with a cautious x into the ballot box. His electoral duty done, that President would then whisk back to Washington. In 1928 Herbert Hoover went to Palo Alto to drop his vote and hear election returns which put him into the White House. His ballot in 1930 was cast by mail. In 1932 he crossed the continent for the first and only time during his Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin...
...wrote Herbert Hoover in Palo Alto to New Jersey Republicans on the eve of last week's election. Next day the nation which two years ago overwhelmingly ousted the 31st President from the White House rejected Mr. Hoover's political advice with even greater emphasis and whittled the Republican opposition in the Senate down to a historic low. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley had asked for a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate to support President Roosevelt. With a roar of approval the country uprose to give him what he wanted-and more. So complete...
Southern California's worst slump in many years continued against a smashing, driving Stanford team that used straight forward power plays to win the Coast's big game at Palo Alto...
...Francisco, Calif.: Albert J. Guerard 1G., of Palo Alto, Calif...