Word: altos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have solved that myself. I've reduced my hours to nothing and doubled my wages. That is perhaps something off the minds of the present Administration." He explained how he spends his time in retirement: "I get up fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto place into Santa Clara Valley. It's very pleasant. Then I have breakfast and a walk. Then I get my mail and look over the newspapers. Then I take another long look at the valley, thanking Providence I'm in California. Then I sit down and think things over...
From Palo Alto, Calif, went no such good-natured protestations from him with whom Citizen Curtis went down to defeat last November. Instead, onetime President Herbert Hoover grimly kept to himself his opinion of his successor in the White House, left his followers to wonder if he would try to be re-elected in 1936.* On July 29 in the Bohemian Grove near San Francisco many of the nation's tycoons will caper at the annual Bohemian Club outing. To be his guest at that famed revel Citizen Hoover asked Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, a bulwark...
...alumni in San Francisco, Stanford Business School's Dean Jacob Hugh Jackson did not appear. Four members of his faculty arrived with apologetic explanations. Dean Jackson had been invited that evening to "bring 25 or 30 students with him to discuss international affairs and economics" at the Palo Alto home of Herbert Hoover...
Motoring home to Palo Alto, Herbert Hoover stopped at a filling station in Los Banos, noticed a cat stalking something under a street light...
...would appear that the cause must ever remain in the realm of conjecture." Meanwhile the joint Congressional committee of investigation went to Akron to begin hearings. Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold is a carpet of California poppies. The silver is the shimmering aluminum paint of an airship dock, second in size only to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron. The whole is Sunnyvale, newly completed Naval...