Word: halle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hooverized, last fortnight cried out that "no man on earth is so sacrosanct but that his position on the Power Trust and Boulder Dam should be made plain" (TIME, Aug. 13). And so, after his multitudinous reception in Los Angeles last week, Nominee Hoover mounted the city hall steps and said...
...meeting be held, therefore, in Madison Square Garden, or other suitable, very large hall, with a division of the sittings-say, to the number of 3,000 for our Calvary members and friends, and the same number for, say, the St. Patrick's Cathedral congregation and your friends-the other 20,000 sittings to be equally divided between Democratic and Republican headquarters for distribution...
Wearing a black silk hat, Al looked and promptly replied: "Hello, Paul." The speaker was Maj. Gen. Paul Bernard Malone. "How are you, Paul. I haven't seen you since 1903. Wasn't it in City Hall Park...
...said Robert Latham Owen, outstanding Democratic "bolter" of last week (see p. 11), "fitted to be an advance agent of prosperity, it is Herbert Hoover." The "advance agent" made the first formal public speech of his Nomineehood last week, at San Francisco's Civic Centre (city hall). He found words "difficult vehicles" for thanking Californians for presenting his name to the G. O. P. He reminisced about early California, before Mayor James Rolph Jr. became a "public institution in San Francisco" and when (33 years ago) young Herbert Hoover hunted a job there. It was a non-political speech...
...less than 200,000 singers lent their services. In Vienna, grandstands seating 400,000 persons were constructed along the Ringstrasse in which the Viennese watched an almost interminable parade of singers. Richard Strauss, Vienna's chief musical luminary, opened the choral singing which was conducted in a huge hall specially constructed for the purpose on the Prater...