Word: boarded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accompanying story implied that the President had ordered the Marine guard of 40 men from the abandoned Mayflower to his Shenandoah National Park camp site to build his Lodge, repair roads. Quickly the President despatched Secretary George Akerson to the Press to make this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual presidential guard. ... Its only task is to keep its own quarters in condition...
Last week he visited Albert Davis Lasker, onetime chairman of the U. S. Shipping Board, at his Chicago home. He walked around the private Lasker golf links but swung no club. Newsmen asked him why he did not play. "I don't like golf," replied the Vice President who likes to watch horse-racing...
...Methodist Episcopal Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals: "Not . . . revolutionary. . . . Prohibitionists have never believed it is desirable to set up a national police force . . . for the sole purpose of enforcement. . . . Unfortunate word 'modification' . . . interpretation ... to imply that state laws may be enacted which in fact legalize alcoholic content in beverages prohibited by the Federal Constitution, we believe an entirely mistaken...
...long run we English-speaking people will not endure tyranny." His general denunciation of sumptuary legislation was, of course, received as a specific condemnation of Prohibition.* It reverberated throughout the land. The loudest echo came from Clarence True Wilson, 57, Ph. B., LL. D., general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals, who chanced to be in Portland at the moment.f Dr. Wilson declared that President Thayer had "railroaded" himself into office. He said: "I was in Washington looking on [at the 1927 A. M. A. Convention] when Dr. William Gerry Morgan was nominated for the presidency...
Another Methodist attempt to meddle with Medicine brought another tart rebuke last week. The Voice of the Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals of the Methodist Episcopal Church had blasted at the "lying, murderous campaign of the American tobacco trust" to get women to smoke. The Voice had cried: "Sixty percent of all babies born of cigaret-sucking mothers die before they reach the age of two." Investigation showed that the Voice got its research from hearsay and a man whose name resembled that of a doctor whom the American Medical Association calls a quack...