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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Trunk lids slammed. Fishing and dam-building clothes were put away. The President led Mrs. Hoover and his retinue back to Washington announcing that regular weekends at his Virginia camp were at an end. Possibly he may take one or two hurried Sunday excursions to the camp in the next month or two, but it is his intention to join Congress in sitting on the Tariff. Last act of Mr. Hoover before leaving his camp was to invite Mr. Burraker to visit him. Last month freckled, tatter- demalion, 14-year-old Ray (William McKinley) Burraker tiptoed into the camp carrying...
...retail instead of wholesale. Since March 4, they computed, the President and Mrs. Hoover have not passed a day without having guests at one or more meals. Some 1,400 guests ate at the White House in a little over six months, including 200 house guests and 250 week-end guests at the Virginia camp. Wholesale savings on butter, eggs, bread, tradesmen said, could have been considerable. But the U. S. Government has no cause to object. Food eaten by all except official guests is paid for out of the President's private pocket...
...that tourists (although generally ignorant of the fact) prefer to pay the extra duty rather than bear the delay. They also say that it would take so long to value tourists' purchases properly that it would be impossible to handle the large influx of tourists which occurs toward the end of every summer. About one-third of all returning tourists pay duty. How much excess duty they pay can only be conjectured?the guess of customs officials was $2,000,000 a year...
Margaret Sanger, American Birth Control League President, returning from Europe, prophesied Roman Catholic opposition to birth control would soon end. Said she: "A pronouncement from the Vatican denying that the Church is opposed to the practice of the dissemination of necessary information is certain to come." Her alleged discoveries abroad: In France, State opposition is greater than Church opposition; in Germany, Roman Catholics practice birth control without the clergy's criticism...
...while Bulldog Drummond was projected on the screen and played on the recording machine. The deaf "listened" through special earphones; a lecturer with a cultured voice explained the action to the blind. The deaf got the most excited, the blind laughed most at funny parts; all applauded at the end, then went home to their respective silence, darkness...