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...Last week President Hoover drove to Annapolis, Md. to board the U. S. S. Arkansas which would take him, via Fortress Monroe, to the sesquicentennial celebration of the American victory (thanks to France) at Yorktown. Mayor Walter E. Quenstedt of Annapolis hospitably went out to the city limits to greet the President. Through some slip up in arrangements, the President's entourage flashed heedlessly by, leaving Mayor Quenstedt & party stranded on the side of the road like a band of hitchhikers. The Mayor rode angrily back to town, wrote a letter to the White House demanding an explanation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Preparations for a Visit | 10/26/1931 | See Source »

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