Word: generaled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rain fell upon President Hoover on his weekend outing at the Shenandoah National Park camp. Indoors he talked tariff with Senator Reed Smoot, congestion in U. S. prisons with Attorney General William DeWitt Mitchell He amused himself by cooking ham and eggs over a coal range, while Filipino chefs stood about as assistants...
...Last week the Public Health service opened a special drive on rats in Washington. Despite his objection to drives in general, President Hoover did not object because two of the animals had recently frisked on the lawn back of his office...
...Paris as special assistant to the U. S. ambassador there. He was placed in charge of the German and Austro-Hungarian civilian prisoners in France. In 1917 President Wilson made him Minister to the Netherlands, an important between-the-war-lines post. His last diplomatic service was secretary-general for the Washington Arms Conference of 1921. Proud is he of the 25 different occasions upon which he has acted as charge d'affaires ad interim, of the many minor treaties he has signed...
...Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. (Second only to General Electric. In June F. A. Merrick succeeded E. M. Herr as president. Sales have averaged about $165,000,000 yearly for six years.) Net profit, first half...
Elected. Gerard Swope, president of General Electric Co., to be a director of National City Bank of New York...