Word: lasted
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the vast sounding board that is the White House, headline after headline boomed last week across the land. Their substance was furnished by conference after conference within the executive offices where sat President Hoover busily engaged in trying to stabilize Big Business (see p. 35). A major experiment on the mass-mind of the country was in progress as President Hoover sought to transform public psychology from a state of economic apprehension and uncertainty to one of faith and reassurance. To Industry he would give a new momentum to carry it over the aftermath of the stockmarket crash...
...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...Court, Senators, Representatives, army officers, foreign envoys stood by for the simple funeral service. The President sat motionless, with bowed head, in a damask-covered gilt chair. His eyes followed the casket as it was borne away from the White House to the beat of muffled drums for its last journey to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Social engagements at the White House (including the Cabinet dinner and the Diplomatic reception) were cancelled for 30 days. The President ordered all flags half-staffed, broke an ancient tradition by having the White House flag lowered halfway to mourn the death of one other...
...Last night, however, the Vagabond said farewell for ever to his Memorial Hall rooms. Loading his few precious possessions in the back of an old model T Ford the old rover with little ceremony made his departure from the Yard precincts...
...bustle of the early dawn this morning the Vagabond completed his moving and found himself installed once more within four walls. His new residence is perhaps not so spacious as his last, but the Vagabond feels that quarters in the cupola of the little construction house in the center of Lowell House are at least strategic...