Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fully aware of his role as Dry Hope- the man President Hoover expects to pull Prohibition out of its manifold troubles- Mr. Youngquist stated that he had never taken a drink himself. He added: "I am a dry politically and personally, but I am not a fanatic on the subject...
...country's two service academies?Rear-Admiral Samuel Shelburne Robison and Major-General William Ruthven Smith?journeyed to Washington last week. They went separately but in parallel frames of mind. A meeting between them had been quietly suggested by the Commander-in-Chief of the Army & Navy, President Hoover. The dignitaries obeyed the unwritten order but did not greatly relish the matter in hand...
President Hoover had been interviewed on the matter by Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, a Congressman whose chief claims to fame are World War soldiering and, before that, footballing at Harvard. Mr. Fish had concluded, as has many another citizen, that the dispute between the academies which has for two years prevented citizens from seeing the Army and Navy play football together was not only silly but unbecoming in both of the country's services...
William Graham Everson was Adjutant-General of the Indiana National Guard as well as pastor of the First Baptist Church of Muncie, Ind., when President Hoover appointed him to succeed Major-General Creed C. Hammond. In Washington Preacher Everson became a full-fledged Major-General of the Regular Army (pay and allowances: $9,700). His job: to administer the $27,000,000 per year the U. S. provides to help maintain guard units; to supply them with U. S. equipment, regular Army officers for training; to keep them up to Regular Army standards...
Responsive to White House proddings. District of Columbia officials last week strove manfully to make the capital the model dry city of the land. A month had passed since Senator Robert Beecher Howell of Nebraska had gladdened President Hoover by "raising the question" of the President's direct responsibility for law enforcement in the District of Columbia, where he is the chief municipal official (TIME, Sept. 30). Last week's developments in Washington's dry war included...