Word: offing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ To the White House went conscientious Major O. Lee Bodenhamer, National Commander of the American Legion, to ply the President with dozens of plans for Legion-sponsored reforms.
¶ Other appointments by President Hoover last week caused the Senate to bark, if not bite. Because he had named Albert L. Watson a U. S. District Judge in Pennsylvania, President Hoover was charged with heeding the demands of William Wallace Atterbury, Pennsylvania R. R. president, Pennsylvania's Republican...
¶ President Hoover last week reappointed Joseph Bartlett Eastman to the lately active Interstate Commerce Commission (see p. 11) to the great disgruntlement of reactionary rail men. Also appointed to the I. C. C. was Robert M. Jones of Tennessee.
¶ In the East room a sober public Christmas tree, adorned with a scene of the Nativity, was set up while a family tree upstairs was decked with tinsel, colored lights. Mrs. Hoover had bookstores searched for travel and mystery books, the President's favorites. From all over U.S...