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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lack of confidence in the economic future ... of the U. S. is foolish. . . . Words are not of any great importance in times of economic disturbance. It is action that counts. . . . The next practical step is the organizing and coordinating of a forward movement of business through the revival of construction activity, the stimulation of exports and of other legitimate business expansion...
...expect sympathy from us. You look too healthy," bantered Cabinet colleagues when the Secretary of War complained, at Cabinet meeting last week, of a pain in his abdomen. By the next morning the pain was a stabbing torment. A cluster of doctors, including Secretary of the Interior Wilbur and Lieut.-Commander Joel T. Boone, the President's physician, had sent James William Good to have his appendix...
...last week's stockmarket plunked to the bottom President Hoover let his Secretary of the Treasury, Andrew William Mellon, make an announcement which the President had been saving up as the Big-News-Item for his own first message to Congress next month, an announcement of immediate tax reduction...
...birds were graded. This year 500,000 were expected to pass governmental scrutiny. Shrewd bird-buying housewives looked for a paper bracelet around their turkey's leg, placed there by the U. S. graders as a certificate of quality. Best young turkeys were labelled "U. S. Prime," next best "U. S. Choice." Older birds were marked "U. S. Prime Mature," and "U. S. Choice Mature...
...find the play very interesting," said His Majesty as the second act curtain fell on Subaltern Raleigh sobbing hysterically on his bunk, "and I am looking forward to seeing what happens in the next...