Word: breakfasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Nominee Hoover appeared several times on the back platform and, as an ardent Republican correspondent said, "waved his appreciation with hand and hat. Speak he would not. At Crestline, Ohio, someone cried: "At least you can tell us what you had for breakfast!" The Nominee laughed and mumbled something about "a good Ohio breakfast...
...each of the three mornings on the train, passengers receive copies of the Overland Mail at the breakfast table. A box on the front page greets them with: "Good morning! How did you sleep?" No attempt is made to cover current news, the papers being printed before the train leaves Chicago (or Los Angeles). But many an oldtime miscellany is published. For example...
...director of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad." To neither newspapermen nor directors did he refuse interviews on the day he took over the N. Y., N. H. & H. in an effort to reduce accidents, deficits. On that day the ringing of a telephone had interrupted his breakfast. And a terror-stricken voice had reported the wrecking of the Bar Harbor Express, the loss of 23 lives...
Hindenburg Helps. Though the Stresemann telegram seemed to offer a plausible solution, difficulties continued to crop up and 48 hours later the press received an impression that Hermann Muller was about to return his mandate for forming a cabinet to President von Hindenburg. Just after breakfast, next morning, the old Feldmarschall received Herr Müller, spoke weighty words and crisp. Before the day was out Germans had a resplendent "Cabinet of Personalities...
...fiction. . . . Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow was an interesting White House caller. The President passed a whole day hearing about Mexico. He called in Secretary of State Kellogg to hear too. . . . Vice President Dawes was an entertaining White House caller. He accompanied 15 other Republican notables to a Coolidge breakfast and made great sport of small-eyed Senator Watson of Indiana for wearing a straw hat with his Prince Albert. When President Coolidge heard what the Vice President was tittering about he smiled and said: "Well, it's just about as proper to wear a straw hat with a Prince...