Word: backed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover motors quickly back to White House. Buffet lunch. Calvin Coolidge, citizen, prepares to take the 2 p. m. train to Northampton, Mass...
...parade approaches. President Hoover issues from the White House, climbs through the back of a grandstand built over the fence, tulip-bed and sidewalk on Pennsylvania Avenue. He takes his post in a glassed-in pulpit, to receive and return the salutes of the U. S. People...
Elated or dismayed, the Job-Seeker travels back to the lobby. This time he is approached and surrounded by the press, rising from benches, emerging from their cubby-hole quarters, flocking about to ply him with artful questions. He calls them "Boys" and, if wise, conceals all the President has said...
Clerk Forster's office is a little back room between the No. 1 Secretary's and the telegraph room. An humble cog, it is he, largely, who keeps the big wheel revolving...
...Even on such an occasion as this, when we are congratulating ourselves on the British Industries Fair," said the Prince, "no good can come of patting ourselves on the back. . We can congratulate ourselves on our successes only when we have seen and rectified our faults...