Word: offs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Executive Offices. Stepping hopefully from his taxicab, a Job-Seeker enters a square yellow-walled lobby. Ahead of him he sees a fireplace (but never, during the Coolidge Era, a fire). A White House guard directs him up a corridor leading off the right side of the lobby. He is...
A guard in blue whistles for a cab and off, to the immense admiration of the throng of mere tourists waiting outside, goes the Job-Seeker.
The social assistant is another man named Hoover. In Harrison's time, this man, Irwin Hood Hoover, came to the White House as plain "Ike" Hoover, a tall, long-nosed electrician to superintend a wiring job. He stayed on and on until he became major domo, chief usher and master...
Here, for example, are 17 miscellaneous resignations which the President must study, accept or reject. Mr. Forster has already sent the usual form letter acknowledging their receipt. And whom does the President wish to appoint Collector of the Port of New Orleans? Mr. Forster guessed it. Here is the lucky...
The Lord Mayor of London for 1929 is bustling, up-to-the-minute Colonel Sir John Edward Kynaston Studd, but the hoar and mighty Mansion House is just as Dickens knew it, and much as it has been for over 180 years. Trooping in, last week, to dine off the...