Word: firsts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...think wise, and publish if you think it has sufficient news value. It shows the scene that greets my eyes each morning as I come across the Bay from my home at Mosman into the gates of the City, i. c., Circular Quay. This is the first view of Sydney seen by every visiting American. I would be happy to send one of these book plates to every helper who cares to cooperate...
...also out for plain tourists to issue grandly forth from the main entrance after staring their way through state chambers. The tourist exit always used to be through the basement. The Open Door policy is the most tangible change which Mrs. Hoover has wrought as First Lady, but there are other, subtle changes. The atmosphere of the President's House is larger, more free. Its hospitality is more casual, for-granted...
Before President & Mrs. Hoover had been in the White House a fortnight, they gave an afternoon reception to 200 members of the Diplomatic Corps which set a fresh tone for these formal functions. Heretofore guests had filed stiffly past the President and First Lady. The Hoovers, however, moved about the room, mingled informally with their guests, passed from group to group...
...presence of small children in the White House immediately after Inauguration and for some time subsequent, also helped pitch the White House in a new key. One of the first articles of furniture to be moved in was a crib for Grandchild Herbert Hoover 3rd, aged 13. The house was his. He romped and played and chortled up and down its long upstairs corridor. Oldtime servitors had not seen such family fun since the days of the Roosevelts...
When Ray Lyman Wilbur left Leland Stanford's presidency to become President Hoover's Secretary of the Interior, there were predictions that the long-discussed Department of Education might now become a reality, with Dr. Wilbur as its first chief...