Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enjoy TIME immensely and I think you improve every week. But in the article on Mrs. Hoover in the last number, where you say, "The small-town lawyer's wife has been succeeded by the cosmopolite's wife," you seem to depreciate Mrs. Coolidge. When have we ever had a more gracious lady in the White House, or one more universally beloved throughout the land? I, too, admire Mrs. Hoover, but I never did like the cry, ''The King is dead! Long live the King...
Over rough Virginia roads, last week, a brown army truck jounced, rattled, meandered, lost its way. Its freight: the Hoover fishing tackle. Its destination: the presidential reserve in Shenandoah National Park, where it arrived after nightfall four hours late. President Hoover, already at the preserve, did no fishing last weekend...
They saw the President's twig-whacked cheek, waited for him to explain. But President Hoover had more important things to tell about than twig-whacks. With his callers he talked of German reparations-a reduction of U. S. claims as a sacrifice. The conferees gravely nodded their heads, agreed to a modification of U. S. policy. Senator Borah left 15 minutes before the rest. All departed, holding their tongues, wondering if it were too late to keep dinner engagements...
...Last week President Hoover made his first use of the flexible provision of the tariff law. He proclaimed duty increases on milk, cream, flaxseed, window glass...
...late President Harding held a conference on unemployment, appointed a committee to investigate, of which Secretary of Commerce Hoover was chairman. Revised as a "Committee on Recent Economic Changes," it last week submitted its report. Keynote: Prosperity...