Word: americans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover last week spent four days at his White House desk and three days at his Shenandoah National Park camp. For work he held two Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials of Don Ernesto Argueto as Minister from Honduras, received Congressmen and Senators praying for appointment favors, endurance flyers, Filipino businessmen, members of the Order of Railroad Conductors...
With President Hoover he went to an American Legion baseball game, hurried back to his desk after the first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem...
Another Good assignment: To make speeches for the President. This duty Secretary Good takes most conscientiously. He has traveled far and made ten major speeches since March 4 to such bodies as the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Red Cross, the War Mothers, the Republican ''Birthday Party" at Ripon...
Last week the mystery ended when Mr. Shearer, to collect a pay claim, filed suit in Manhattan against his alleged employers?Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Newport News Shipbuilding Co., American Brown-Bovari Corp. From these shipbuilders, Lobbyist Shearer said, he had received $51,230. He claimed they still owed him $257,655 for professional services. He had, he stated, been hired to prepare literature, information, data, to write articles, to interview public officials and press representatives, to make speeches in behalf of U. S. shipbuilding from 1926 to 1929. The dullest Congressman could see the connection: Big Navy?more cruisers; more...
...American Art Annual Sculptor Dreyfuss is listed as a sculptor and writer, pupil of George Grey Barnard, member of the Art Students' League of New York, sometime Instructor in Modeling at Cooper Union, Manhattan. Among his works is the Arsenal Park Memorial in Pittsburgh. His wealthy family say he is insane. They want him locked...