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Word: presidental (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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¶ While Prime Minister MacDonald was at the White House, waiting in Manhattan for his turn to see President Hoover was a slender little gentleman who looked not unlike a brownskin edition of Secretary Mellon (but with wider lips). This, a very finicky gentleman with his own chef, an imposing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Thalassocrats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

¶ To No. 2107 Connecticut Ave., went President Hoover. There in bed lay his good old friend Theodore Elijah Burton, 77, suffering complications after an attack of grippe he had last month. It was the President's second call since the senator fell ill. He stayed some little time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Thalassocrats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

¶President Hoover accepted the resignation, long-since proffered, of Ogden H. Hammond, President of Hoboken Terminal Co., Ambassador to Spain. Urged by influential Senator Reed of Pennsylvania as the successor: Irwin Boyle Laughlin of Pittsburgh, career diplomat (Athens. Tokyo, Peking, Bangkok, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London), elder brother of Pittsburgh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Thalassocrats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

¶ The better to aid-the-farmer, President Hoover last week exercised power given him last winter in the Farm Relief Act and transferred to the Federal Farm Board the entire personnel, equipment and functions of the Department of Agriculture's division of co-operative marketing.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Thalassocrats | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Last week in his cheery way Mr. White undertook to speak for Kansas in the matter of social precedence for Mrs. Edward Everett Gann, who is also Dolly Curtis Gann, sister and hostess of the Vice President of the U. S.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Verbum Sap | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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