Word: messagee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The black Republic of Haiti last week cast a shadow of concern over the White House. Prompted by bloody disorders there, President Hoover sent out of his office two despatches: 1) an order to the Navy to reinforce U. S. troops already on duty in Haiti; 2) a special message...
¶Also to the House of Representatives the President sent his budget message, asking for $3,830,445,231 to run the government next year. A separate request: $200,000 to pay the expenses of the U. S. delegation to next month's London Naval Conference.
Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. ¶ On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib...
*Since 1900 the shortest presidential message (8,000 words) was by Calvin Coolidge, the longest (34,980 words) by William Howard Taft. Average length: 15,000 words.
Nothing which anyone could say in favor of enforcing the prohibitory law could possibly please the fanatical wets. Reasonable people, wets and drys alike, must approve some parts of President Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty...