Word: altos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Palo Alto, Calif., one minute's walk from Citizen Herbert Hoover's home, students of Stanford University held a debate. The question: Should alumnus Herbert Hoover be returned to the White House? Debater Will Rogers Jr.: ''No . . . Roosevelt blazes the trail." The decision: No, seven...
Four men climbed into a big limousine one morning in Palo Alto. The plump man was Herbert Hoover. The others were two secretaries and a chauffeur. Heading eastward across the U. S. the limousine took Mr. Hoover to: 1) Chandler, Ariz. "on business"; 2) Phoenix, Ariz. to spend the night with Arch W. Shaw, Charles G. Dawes, General Pershing, General Harbord and Henry M. Robinson; 3) Albuquerque, N. Mex. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman Simms and his wife, Ruth Hanna McCormick; 4) Santa Fe, N. Mex.; 5) Kit Carson, Colo.; 6 ) Hutchinson, Kans. to lunch with onetime Republican Congressman...
There Messrs. Edge & Mills laid before other members of the Republican general staff tactical recommendations straight from the vanquished commander-in-chief at Palo Alto. On Herbert Hoover's advice, the Republican opposition decided to lie low during the early days of the Congressional session, planned not to call a party caucus until "errors of the Administration economic program" accumulate. It was hoped that dissenting Democrats would open a breach through which the Republican minority could begin a counterattack with its own legislative program, which was tentatively based on three lines...
Unfortunately these haleyon days could not last forever. Mr. Hoover retired to become the squire of Palo Alto, and Mr. Brown awoke one morning to find himself on trial for accepting bribes. But the unkindest cut of all was when his mistress turned on him and became the chief witness for the prosecution. Poor Mr. Brown's cup is filled to overflowing. As his lawyer so feelingly put it to the jury, "Subconsciously, somewhere in his mind, Brown hopes to be a hero in the mind of the woman he loves. Love is a strange thing indeed. He is married...
...Ridiculous," snorted Governor Rolph at charges of his culpability in the Missouri affray. "The cases are not at all parallel." But no sooner had he riposted that assault than he found himself attacked from another quarter. Twenty-five Californians including Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, signed a statement declaring Governor Rolph's attitude a "humiliation and shame" to the State...