Word: boards
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the vast sounding board that is the White House, headline after headline boomed last week across the land. Their substance was furnished by conference after conference within the executive offices where sat President Hoover busily engaged in trying to stabilize Big Business (see p. 35). A major experiment on the mass-mind of the country was in progress as President Hoover sought to transform public psychology from a state of economic apprehension and uncertainty to one of faith and reassurance. To Industry he would give a new momentum to carry it over the aftermath of the stockmarket crash...
...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...this major legislation still uncompleted. The first session of the 71st Congress which began last April and ended last week cost the country $177,000,000, exclusive of legislators' salaries which must be paid anyway. Of this amount $151,- 500,000 was voted to start the Federal Farm Board; $19,000,000 for the 1930 Census and House Reapportionment; $4,500,000 for eradication of the Mediterranean fruit fly in Florida; $1,000,000 for pay increases to legislative employes; $1,000,000 for legislative expenses, includ- ing $360,000 for publication of the Congressional Record...
...four selected subjects in the case of each of their seven members. The subjects must represent the four major fields of the candidates' preparation, and in order to find a place on the team a candidate must take examinations of the College Entrance Examinations of the College Entrance Examination Board. He cannot claim admission to college without examination, under the honor plan...
...equal, it is entirely wrong that force should be exerted to get them to eat there. It would seem to be advisable to make the food as good as it is possible to do so and let the success of the project depend upon the excellence of the board without resort to financial persuasion...