Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hearing that Democrats and insurgent Republicans were planning to alter this so-called flexible clause* so that Congress instead of the President should receive the Tariff Commission's recommendations, President Hoover last week waited until the eve of the Senate's debate on the matter, then issued a...
¶ Chance put one Hoover in the White House. The electorate put in another. Last week the second Hoover added a third Hoover to the household. President Hoover appointed Lieut.-Commander Gilbert C. Hoover of Columbus, Ohio, to be his Naval aid. The first Hoover, as everyone knows, is tall...
¶ Neither of the other two Hoovers looks like the President (though George Akerson, presidential secretary, is held by many to be almost the "double" of his chief). Yet trickery of some sort might have been suspected one day last week when this amazing episode took place: The President was...
¶ President Hoover reappointed George Alexander Parks to be Governor of Alaska (second term).
To represent the U. S. at Spain's International Exposition at Seville, the President named Fred R. Zimmerman, last Governor of Wisconsin.