Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Among other guests were Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford of Dearborn, Mich., and Frank W. Stearns, of Boston. C. The President received Barren Collier, Manhattan advertising man. was told that a business survey of 3.500 U. S. communities pointed to a prosperous 1929. ¶The President received President-Elect Herbert Hoover, welcomed him back from South America. What the President said, what the President-Elect said, was not made public. A later conference between outgoing and incoming Administrations was held behind closed doors from which only silence emanated. Correspondents maintained that President and President-Elect had decided that an extra...
...seat of the U. S. Government is the White House. The centre of interest of the U. S. Government was. last week. the Mayflower hotel. Here sat Herbert Hoover. President-Elect. Here came Representatives, Senators, well-wishers, job-hunters. advisers. correspondents, Cabinet members, in all some 200 callers. Twice Mr. Hoover went visiting, both calls being paid to President Coolidge. The rest of the time Mr. Hoover received...
...course the fair companions of 1930 may raise complications. Some at the Union may find the assemblage of the elect too "representative" for their, happiness. And perhaps some in the Hall of Fame may be disappointed as usual with the great unwashed...
Kuhn, Loeb & Co.: Sir William Wise man, 43, onetime (1916-19) Chief of the British Intelligence Service in the U. S.; George W. Bovenizer, 49, with Kuhn, Loeb since 1897; Lewis L. Strauss, 32, wartime confidential secretary to President-Elect Hoover (TIME...
...Riegels, the 175 lb. centre and captain-elect of the California football team, sat last week in the warm sun on the sidelines, with 70,000 people staring down at him and shouting. Not one of them would have changed places with him. The Rose Bowl Tournament has come to be in a sense the most significant football event of the year. At the end of each season, the best of the Eastern teams is invited to play the best team beyond the Rockies, in the Rose Bowl, at Arroyo Seco just outside of Pasadena.* This year, after the Army...