Word: elected
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...passing the Independent Offices Appropriation bill, last week, the Senate gave the President-Elect-presumably at his request-two additional White House secretaries, each at a $10,000 salary. The Presidential office now is supplied with one $10,000 secretary (Everett Sanders...
Hooverites explain that the President-Elect will make the Presidency a bigger job than it ever was; that he will Organize it and obtain Cooperation, Efficiency. It has often been said of Mr. Hoover, with various inflections: "He's a man who makes big jobs out of little ones...
...significant rumor came from Mr. Hoover. Newsmen asked him whether he would see President-Reject Smith. To the query the President-Elect replied: "By all means I should be glad if Governor Smith has the time to call. I should be most happy...
...next day appeared Paul Mallon's despatch, naming by name the 54 Senators who voted for Mr. West and the little band of only 27 who voted against. The Senate was scandalized. Vice President elect Curtis, Senate housekeeper that he is, investigated all the servants (clerks, etc.) and pronounced that none of them had given away the secret. Only one alter native: some Senator had "snitched...
...contiguity of Tycoon Penney and President-Elect Hoover, who chose the Penney mansion at Miami for his pre-inaugural retreat, added an emphasis to the Cannon award. It was perhaps circumstantial, perhaps significant, that a close and potent friend of Mr. Hoover's should regard Dry fervor as religious service...