Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Instead, he: 1) Spent his first night away from the White House in a tent; 2) Got a twig-whack on the left cheek, just below the eye which made a mark; 3) Attended a Baptist Sunday School meeting at Sperryville; 4) Had his automobile pulled out of a Virginia mudhole by a state-maintained team of mules...
...Last week President Hoover made his first use of the flexible provision of the tariff law. He proclaimed duty increases on milk, cream, flaxseed, window glass...
...Baths Commissioner of St. Louis. During the War he served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Regular Army, won the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism" in operations at Baulny and Chaudron Farm, France, Sept. 29-30, 1917. He became an Assistant Secretary of War in 1923, was the first World War army veteran to be advanced to the head of that department...
...Davis at first hesitated about accepting this appointment, largely because of the Philippine climate and the health of Mrs. Davis, who is now recovering from a protracted illness at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital. Washington society was ready to believe that another factor had also weighed. There is a persistent report that Alice Davis, the new Governor's oldest daughter, is informally engaged to marry Allan Hoover, the President's younger...
Pending definite news, Senator Edge was internally atwitter over the prospect of being "just across the Channel, Charlie." A somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with...