Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover last week spent four days at his White House desk and three days at his Shenandoah National Park camp. For work he held two Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials...
¶President Hoover appointed John Gerrit Diekema of Holland, Mich., to succeed Richard Montgomery Tobin, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Holland. Minister Diekema, fluent Dutch-speaker, is another feather in the cap of the University of Michigan (see p. 12).
¶ To Washington last week went a diamond-studded grand cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, addressed to President Hoover. Secretary of State Stimson prepared to put it away in a department vault until the President becomes again a private citizen and constitutionally eligible to receive foreign...
The President made up his mind last week on an appointment pending since Inauguration when William Patterson MacCracken, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, asked to be relieved. Mr. MacCracken, 40, lawyer, has been in the department for three years and handled his aeronautics duties so well that commercial aviation...
Last week the President summoned to the executive offices Col. Clarence Marshall Young,* 40, lawyer, Director of the Department of Commerce's Bureau of Civil Aeronautics. Did Mr. Young want the job of Assistant Secretary? Of course he did. So on Oct. 1 he takes his promotion, to Mr. MacCracken...