Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Traveling to Newport News, Mrs. Hoover cracked a bottle of grapejuice over the prow of the Navy's newest aircraft carrier (13,500 tons with superstructure to starboard of landing table). Declared she: "I christen thee Ranger." Said she later: "I shall always have a soft spot in my heart for the Navy because its blue-jackets once saved the life of my husband and myself from Oriental bullets and knives...
...With great satisfaction" President Hoover signed a bill authorizing the Supreme Court to prescribe rules of practice and procedure for inferior U. S. courts in criminal cases after verdicts...
...York Times French Strother, literary secretary at the White House, wrote a four-page eulogy of President Hoover and his administration which left the impression that the U. S. electorate had made a grave error when it rejected such a successful leader for a second term. A Strother news item : President Hoover planned to call a White House conference on ''The Use of Leisure Time" but never publicly announced it for fear a country suffering from an excess of involuntary leisure might misunderstand and mock...
...President Hoover laid the cornerstone of the new Department of Justice building. Week before he did the same for the new Archives building...
...Arrive at the White House; change cars; start for the Capitol with President Hoover...