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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hoover was not too busy to go through a ceremony close to the heart of many a small boy. He became, last week, a tenderfoot Boy Scout. As U. S. President he will be Commander-in-Chief Scout. He stepped out of doors one bright morning and, with Mrs. Hoover ("the greatest Girl Scout of all") at his elbow, scrutinized the regimental front of 46 scout troops, Boys and Girls. Charles A. Miller, chief adult Scout of Dade County, made a speech. Then Adult Scout John C. Norsk saluted and presented wee Scout Charles A. Miller Jr. Gravely the little...
Robert Church, Memphis millionaire, dictator of the "Lincoln Belt" which stretches darkly from Missouri, north and south, through Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio. Toward the close of the 1928 campaign all but six of the 25 leading Negro newspapers were calling for Smith's election. Puzzled and worried, Nominee Hoover summoned Millionaire Church to Washington, heard his grievances against Col. Mann and the "lily-whites," spoke a few soothing words. In the last week of the campaign most of the rebellious journals, at Church's command, changed front and Hooverized vociferously. But with Col. Mann still holding forth...
This afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, the University team meets New York University in the Hemenway Gymnasium. To date, the latter has shown strength in defeating the Navy. For this reason, a close match is looked for by the Harvard team which has split even out of two starts...
...independence in Allied countries, during the War, Svehla remained in what now is Czechoslovakia but then was Austria, superintending from within the struggle for independence which Masaryk and Benes carried on from without. Such a man deserves the highest, most exceptional honor ? which he received last week. Always close-mouthed and secretive, Dr. Svehla probably was glad that the world press almost totally ignored his passing, last week...
...presently she became aware of the reflection of an object that projected over her shoulder and looked down into the water, as she was doing. She paused, and the reflection did likewise. Then she recognized its cause as the head of the corpse which hung over her shoulder close...