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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something in which the public can have no legitimate interest. To him the White House is a home as sacred from intrusion as his own Palo Alto residence. Yet last week he put aside his distaste for this type of publicity to the extent of allowing two of his grandchildren-to make a formal appearance before the talking newsreel cameras on the White House lawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 22, 1930 | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...friend Edna Stanton Michelson, wife of Dr. Albert Abraham Michelson, who is carrying on new light measurements. Mrs. Michelson is a daughter of the late Edgar Stanton, onetime U. S. Consul at St. Petersburg. She has been married to her scientist for 31 years, has three children, four grandchildren. She speaks and reads German and French, wrote magazine articles when younger. She dislikes Society, publicity, will not release her picture for publication. Her husband's friends know her as one of the more charming, amusing hostesses in the intimate social life of the University of Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: He Is Worth It | 12/22/1930 | See Source »

...Behind them came their mother and a nurse carrying their baby sister. Boris took each child by the hand, led them dancing and prancing back to the gate. There they spied Mrs. Hoover in hiding. "Grandmother!" they whooped and rushed into her arms. Thus did the President's grandchildren -Herbert III, 4; Peggy Anne, 5; Joan, 6 months - come to the White House for a long stay. A four-room nursery suite was ready for them on the top floor. ¶ A bride & groom were entertained at White House luncheon - Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays and the onetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Dec. 15, 1930 | 12/15/1930 | See Source »

...take him up to Washington for the presidential Thanksgiving dinner. Then Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr. would leave the children in Grandmother's care, while together they went back to Asheville to live. The top floor of the White House was abustle last week with preparation for the grandchildren's occupancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Descendants & Ancestors | 12/1/1930 | See Source »

...healing machine. Los Angeles has a boulevard and residential district named after Wilshire. His I-on-a-co was also an electrical healing machine. Wine of Cardui is for "female complaints." It is a not unpleasant beverage. Lydia E. Pinkham's daughter, Mrs. Caroline Pinkham Gobe, and her grandchildren Lydia Pinkham Gobe and Arthur Wellington Pinkham (company president) still sell her vegetable com- pound for "female complaints." The very wealthy Emersons (Bromo Seltzer) live much abroad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Macfadden Peak | 8/25/1930 | See Source »

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