Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Slightly annoyed by veiled criticism, President Hoover last week announced his intention of donating his camp in Virginia to the U. S. as a permanent presidential retreat. He detailed the contributions to its construction: 1) from Virginia, roads to the camp; 2) from the Marine Corps, "Labor in erecting cabins and tents, in providing water supply, cutting brush;" 3 ) from the telephone and electric light companies, "connections without charge;" 4) from local residents, "labor on fine trails;" 5) from the U. S. Army engineers, road work "as one of its summer exercises:" ]6) from himself, 164 acres of land...
...President Hoover last week first exercised executive clemency. In 1927, George Herbert Thompson, Washington Blackamoor, murdered his sweetheart. Five days before he was to step into the electric chair, President Hoover commuted his sentence to life imprisonment...
...until last fortnight's mutiny at Leavenworth Penitentiary (TIME, Aug. 12), was something done. Prompt then to speak was President Hoover. Last week he announced a new program to meet this old problem...
...Correction, fought many a fight to modernize that State's penal system. No sentimentalist, he believes in prison reform, rehabilitation of society's sick-minded. One of his methods for relieving U. S. prison congestion is to increase paroles, now limited by the scarcity of probation officers. President Hoover last week promised him more of these officers...
...years Mr. Burke has been associated with the G. O. P. Committee. The post of General Counsel was especially created for him. Throughout the campaign he sat just outside Candidate Hoover's door. President Hoover took him along to the White House where he serves as the President's chief political adviser...