Word: branches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than six decades the little (pop. 791) Iowa town of West Branch has listened to old Newt Butler tell the same story-how he licked Herbie Hoover in a scrap at the swimming hole. Last week, as ex-President Herbert Clark Hoover returned to West Branch to celebrate his 74th birthday, Newt reminded his old schoolmate of the bout. Hoover just grinned...
...dozen Hoovers are buried under the red cedars, and for a long moment stood with his head bowed before the grave of his father and mother. On a platform looking out over sun-splashed fields of the finest corn in lowans' memory, Hoover spoke. He recalled leaving West Branch at the age of ten to live on his uncle's farm (his father died when he was six, his mother when he was nine), the long round of farm chores, the unending making of provisions for the next winter. "In those primitive days," he said, "social security...
Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
...coat pocket, took a train to Oakland, and wandered along sidewalks until he found a car with the ignition key in the lock. He got in, drove away, stole a different set of license plates and put them on the stolen car. Then he drove to the South Berkeley branch of the Bank of America...
Hoover Homecoming (Tues. 4:45 p.m., Mutual). The former President in a 74th-birthday address from his home town, West Branch, Iowa...