Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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North Florida disgraced itself in Republican eyes last week when its fish turned Democratic and refused to take President Hoover's bait. As in Ossabaw Sound off Georgia the week before, the President trolled his line for hours in the waters about Fernandina but caught nothing worth keeping. Disgusted, he ordered the U. S. S. S. Sequoia, his holiday craft, to wind its way down the coast through the twisty inland waterway to better fun and fishing. Progress was slow through shoal waters. Twice the Sequoia grounded. The President baked in the sun, played Hoover-ball, worked...
...Atlantic off Palm Beach aboard Captain Herman Gray's sloop Orca, President Hoover's luck changed. His first day's catch: three sails (one 7 ft., 8 in.) and a dolphin. The second day he got two more "sails," one of which was barely an inch too short to win him the "diamond button" awarded by the Sailfish Club of Florida for eight-footers...
...Also under consideration was the construction of a small warm-water swimming pool in the White House basement, similar to the one Mr. Roosevelt had in the Executive Mansion conservatory at Albany, where he took regular underwater leg exercises between trips to Warm Springs. ¶ In December 1929, President Hoover, v.ith the aid of $500,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation, appointed a Research Committee on Social Trends "with a view to providing such a review as might supply a basis for the formulation of large national policies looking to the next phase in the nation's development." The committee...
...education, trade, manners, morals, contrasted its skyscrapers and its slums, its censorships and its dirty literature, its Prohibition and its easy divorces. Last week it put into two fat volumes and 29 chapters its findings on the U. S. during the first third of the 20th Century. Declared President Hoover...
...transports Henderson and Antares creaked with the shuffle of 1790 brown shoes. Behind lay six years of bush warfare. Behind lay 20 officers and 115 men killed in action. Behind lay Revolutionist Augustino Sandino still at large. Behind lay President Juan Bautista Sacasa inaugurated day before with President Hoover's "warmest good wishes for a very successful administration." Behind lay one of the most controversial episodes in all U. S. foreign policy. Not left behind were 16 native girls whom 16 Marines had taken to wife...