Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"More policemen than citizens witnessed the Louisville parade. The hall where the President spoke was only half-filled with curious spectators who did not grasp the significance of his speech on inland waterway development" reads your description of President Hoover's visit to Louisville in TIME for Nov. 4...
Walsh of Massachusetts is as follows: Born: Leominster, Worcester Co., Mass., Nov. 11, 1872. Start in life: Picking and peddling blueberries. Career: He was the ninth of ten children in a poor Irish Catholic family. His father was a factory hand pressing cattle horns into combs. The factory closed. The...
To China. To read, write and speak Chinese is an asset invaluable to any U. S. diplomat in the Orient. Such a linguist is Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Trusler Johnson (salary: $9,000). Last week President Hoover sent his name to the Senate for confirmation as U. S. Minister...
To London. Up and down the worn State Department steps, back and forth through its high drafty corridors has of late been seen, in leisurely movement, a tall robust man with a British faultlessness of attire. With difficulty newsmen identified him as Arthur Wilson Page, son of the late great...
President Hoover last week had a chance to compare himself with Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Both those great men were mentioned in an open letter to the White House from long-nosed William Randolph Hearst, who said he wanted President Hoover to make ''some reassuring utterance" at this time...