Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...since the campaign to "humanize" him began two months ago, President Hoover has writhed and winced at intimate, inconsequential little stories about himself in the public prints. When a newshawk cynically remarked to him that more U. S. newsreaders were interested in Granddaughter Peggy Ann than in his debt holiday, the President denied that the U. S. people were of such low intelligence. The Press fortnight ago described the President's hurried departure from his Rapidan camp (where no reporters were present) and his 60 m. p. h. drive back to Washington. Mr. Hoover was intensely annoyed...
...started to go around at 50 m. p. h. when a rear wheel skidded and the bus sent Connor's machine spinning over & over into the ditch. Connor's wife broke her collarbone, suffered other injuries. Her husband got off with bruises. ¶Despite the Hoover debt holiday. Germany teetered all week on the edge of financial collapse (see p. 20). President Hoover announced that Germany's rescue would have to be accomplished privately or abroad, that the U. S. Government was not authorized to give it any banking...
...Washington's three busiest and most publicized men. The other two?President Hoover and Acting Secretary of State William Richards Castle Jr.?awaited him inside the air-cooled White House office. What engaged their joint attention there were the international negotiations incident to Mr. Hoover's proposed debt holiday (see p. 16). Undersecretary Mills was the President's statistical expert in whose head were all the facts and figures needed to deal with France. Two, three, sometimes four times a day President Hoover would summon him for conferences from his great oblong office on the second floor...
France contended last week that contracts already existing between firms like Schmitz A. G. and Pierre et Cie must not be disturbed by the Hoover Holiday, a primary purpose of which is to promote world trade. But on this point President Hoover set his square jaw. His reason: "such deliveries" are in effect "payments." Mr. Hoover let it be known that "the spirit of the [Hoover] proposal" demands that no reparations payments be made by Germany during the moratorium year except such as are reloaned to Germany through...
...preserve their impartiality and promote the unity of Belgium, had recently grown unpopular among some of their Flemish subjects. Proof: Crown Prince Leopold and Queen Elisabeth have been hissed and booed within the past year at Antwerp, Malines, Louvain. The obvious remedy seemed to lie in a discreet, informal holiday to be taken by Her Majesty among the wandering canals and soft green meadows of reposeful Flanders...