Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The President's announcement stirred the business world. He himself studied lists of industrial leaders to summon to the Cabinet Room, eyed such names as Owen D. Young, Thomas William Lament. Julius Rowland Barnes, Daniel Willard, William Green. Four group conferences were arranged: 1) potent railroad presidents; 2) tycoons of...
Pestered for details, the President's aides suggested that one purpose of the President's conference was to focus in the public mind such unrelated expansion programs as a $75,000,000 road project in Iowa, a $2,000,000 shipbuilding scheme, a billion-dollar telephone development plan, a billion...
President Hoover ordered government departments to resume all halted public works under their jurisdiction, hopeful that states, municipalities, railroads and industries would follow suit.
"You can't expect sympathy from us. You look too healthy," bantered Cabinet colleagues when the Secretary of War complained, at Cabinet meeting last week, of a pain in his abdomen. By the next morning the pain was a stabbing torment. A cluster of doctors, including Secretary of the Interior...
Mr. Good, though 63 years old, emerged favorably from the anesthetic. He gave his wife lucid instructions about pressing War Department business. From his bedside went incessant reports to the White House. Two days after the operation he began to sink. At night President Hoover went to the hospital sickroom...