Word: hooverness
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...Hoover camp on the Rapidan President Roosevelt motored with family & friends for a Sunday picnic luncheon. He made part of the trip in Mrs. Roosevelt's roadster. It was his first full day outing since March...
President Roosevelt had thought long and hard about this World Conference, which grew out of last year's Reparations meeting at Lausanne. President Hoover, accepting the League's invitation to attend, had despatched to Geneva Edmund Ezra Day of the Rockefeller Foundation and John Henry Williams, Harvard professor of economics, as U. S. delegates to help draft agenda. London was picked as the meeting place and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's Prime Minister, consented to serve as chairman. Still unsettled was the opening date...
...Knowles '34, Cullison Cady '35, and Charles Foss '34 will leave tomorrow for Hanover where they will represent Harvard at the World Economic Conference being sponsored by the Dartmouth Christian Association and the Green International from April 14 to 16. E. E. Day, Hoover appointee to the Preparatory Commission on the London Economic Conference, will preside over the conference...
...They found nothing but small bits of wreckage. The Coast Guard destroyer Tucker took from the Phœbus the four men it had rescued, steamed with them to Brooklyn Navy Yard. They were Lieut.-Commander Wiley, veteran of the Shenandoah, who looks remarkably like Herbert Hoover; Bos'n's Mate R. E. Deal, a survivor of the Shenandoah crash; Machinist's Mate M. E. Erwin and Radioman Robert E. Copeland. When the Tucker had them aboard its flag came down to half mast. Radioman Copeland had died of injuries or submersion...
Herbert Clark Hoover went to Reno, Nev., to "enjoy a ride over the Sierra," with his onetime Secretary of the Treasury Ogden L. Mills. Early next morning a little brass-trimmed locomotive pulling an ancient yellow coach took them out of Reno. It was the first equipment used on Nevada's Virginia & Truckee Railway when Mr. Mills's Grandfather Darius Ogden Mills built it in 1869. The train stopped while Mr. Mills inspected the railroad's right-of-way over the south end of the famed Comstock Lode. Mr. Hoover remembered well when...