Word: christmases
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Decentralization is a prime tenet of the Hoover theory of administration-dividing the work into parts and making one person responsible for each part. He would rather appoint a director of this and a director of that and let them choose assistants than entrust this-and-that in one lump...
It was Max "Boo Boo" Hoff who had been characterized as the bootleg tsar, Borgian in intrigue, monstrously and illicitly wealthy. But he declared himself bankrupt. And his lawyer suggested lavish Hoff philanthropy. Students of the situation wondered whether the term "philanthropy" included the hundreds of Christmas turkeys that policemen...
Away from the public she is like that-unaffected, gay. She lives at the St. Regis Hotel with her husband, two maids. For recreation she loves the movies, goes sometimes to three shows in succession, sits enthralled, comes home to mimic all the players. She likes to stand at shop...
Mr. Houghton proceeded to German-populated St. Louis and there painted a most moving picture of the Hoover services in feeding post-War Germany. The picture included "little girls . . . white, emaciated, unsmiling . . . with great awful eyes," and "a woman dressed in black" in Berlin at "that dreadful Christmas season of...
The club hopes to conclude the drive for funds by Christmas so that work may be started on the hangar in the spring. The Graduate Committee has agreed to the plans for the drive