Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...years, baseball passes have been given to the President. The 54th was last week handed by John Heydler, President of the National League, to President Hoover. As usual, it was No. 1, bore the U. S. seal. Unlike all others, it was in an elephant hide case...
...Around the corner of 13th and Irving streets, N. W. swing heavy blue double-decked buses. There they stop, to start up again with a splattering roar of the exhaust. At that corner stands the Friends Meeting House where President and Mrs. Hoover worship. So loud were the bus noises that the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia ordered the vehicles to take another route on Sunday mornings. Last Sunday the President worshipped in peace...
...President Hoover last week put his first message to Congress in shape for the Public Printer. It is short, written mostly in the evenings of the last month. It recommends action on only two legislative subjects : Farm Relief, Tariff Revision...
...Early one morning a large unmarked car rolled out of the White House grounds. At the wheel was Mrs. Hoover. With her rode Mrs. Adolph Ochs, Mrs. Edgar Rickard, Miss Margaret Rickard. They drove around the Tidal Basin, saw the cherry blossoms, circled the Lincoln Memorial. As Mrs. Hoover turned homeward into West Executive Ave. a motorist swung into a parking space, missed it, backed out to try again, thus blocking traffic. Mrs. Hoover gave her horn an impatient toot. Not recognizing her, the motorist signaled the First Lady to "pipe down." She did, smiling...
...President Hoover bade farewell to Ambassador Hugh Gibson and Rear Admiral Hilary Pollard Jones, U. S. delegate to the League of Nations Preparatory Commission on Armament Limitation. Final presidential instructions: be careful...