Word: newtons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency was moved 200 ft. westward last week when President Hoover officially crossed West Executive Avenue. Flanked by Secretaries George Akerson and Walter Newton, the President marched up the steep outside steps of the State, War & Navy building, climbed the sharply curving inside stairway to the third floor, entered the ornate office of General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. There he was officially greeted by his Secretaries of State and of War who work in the same building. Clerks peeped in at him, buzzed with excitement at having "the Chief" under their roof...
Damage: $75.000. Cause: Secretary Newton insisted it was a short circuit. Washington fire chiefs blamed a faulty flue in the chimney from Secretary Newton's office. A fire had been burning on his hearth barely an hour before while he was dressing there for the White House party. The half-story garret above was a fire-nest where flames fed greedily on bundled papers in storage...
Wilson Hill Crosby, of West Newton...
Subchairmen on the photographie board are Arthur Foote 2nd, of Belmont, Bard Pendleton Rogers, of New York City, and Flamiltion Young, of Newton...