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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...staff correspondent" of the arch-Republican New York Herald Trib une described Bellhaven Behoover as an "eager-eyed scion of champion collie stock ... a seven-month-old sable and white collie, the sable a lustrous golden brown and the white like the fluffed ala baster of a snowdrift at dawn."* Son of Triple Champion Bellhaven Braveheart and Multiple Champion Bellhaven Blossom time, grandson of Bellhaven Starboat Strongheart ("greatest collie of all time"), young Bellhaven Behoover was valued at $1,000. But Mrs. Ilch said that, for Mrs. Hoover, "nothing was too good." Her idea was, of course, that Bellhaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...Poetic license. Snowdrifts are blue-grey at dawn, do not look white until after sunrise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The President-Elect | 11/26/1928 | See Source »

...days began one dawn, last week, in Tokyo-dawn being the most auspicious hour for the egress of the Son of Heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Emperor Enthroned | 11/19/1928 | See Source »

Through the western desert stretches of his own Main Street, Mr. Hoover rested, read books, beamed confidently from the platform. He entered California with the dawn before election. Palo Alto made holiday. To throngs he said, and repeated that evening over the radio: "This enormously enlarged interest is evidence of the great depth of conviction and even anxiety of our people. . . . Whatever the conscience of America determines, that will be right. . . ." Everywhere he made special reference to women. Before noon of election day friends were generally addressing him as "Mr. President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: My Own Main Street | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

Over the week-end and into the dawn of Election Day, the pulse of the nation quickened until it sounded like a machine-gun tattoo or a concentrated yip, yip, hooray...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sidewalks of Chicago | 11/12/1928 | See Source »

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