Word: pres
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...guns, boarded the presidential barge, was ferried out into the Potomac near Haines Point, received another salute, boarded the revenue cutter Apache. Leaning over the rail he watched intently while Imp II, driven by Financier Richard Farnsworth Hoyt of Manhattan, won the President's cup for motorboats. The Pres- ident then accepted another salute, was ferried ashore and motored?reversing a decision of the week prior?the 100-odd miles away from Washington's heat and humidity to his Rapidan camp for one more weekend. Guests at the camp included Secretary of Commerce Lamont, F. K. Heath, Assistant Secretary...
...speech of President Lowell, one-time professor of government, exalted a Boston Globe reporter, who wrote: "Pres. Lowell, when he rose to speak, was the recipient of as fine a spontaneously bestowed honor as he is ever likely to receive. Rising to speak before a group of men great in a field of which he has comparatively no knowledge, every one in the house rose with him. This is a custom at all Harvard gatherings, but the percentage of Harvard men in last night's audience was small, as by some magnet attracted, the audience rose to its feet...
Deep Breathing & High Blood Pressure. Slow, deep breathing decreases the blood pressure of patients suffering from essential hypertension (high blood pres sure), Vienna's Wilhelm Raab reported, because thus they eliminate more than normal carbon dioxide from their blood. This does not apply to normal people or those suffering from nephritis with high blood pressure...
Cartoonist Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle made a sketch of the President-elect, right hand raised in greeting, hat held in left hand, and had it reproduced nine times, in nine panels of a strip cartoon entitled: "Anticipating the News Cameras-Pres.-Elect Hoover in Panama, in Colombia, in Chile, in Peru...
...Republican regime, a desire to let others do his work, and a habit of living at public expense. It should also be mentioned that he enjoys with Messrs. Hoover and Smith an easy familiarity with the wealthy and well-born and a healthy contempt for workers. Harvard Thomas for-Pres. Club...