Word: rapidan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After inviting 18 guests for a week-end on the Rapidan, President Hoover found that Congressional business required his attention, remained in Washington, wrote his letter to Senator Watson urging defeat for the present Veterans' Relief Bill...
...dinner conversation through an interpreter Mr. Hoover may well have touched on the reason why the State Banquet was stag. Mrs. Hoover, still suffering from her fall, had been obliged to remain recuperating by the Rapidan (TIME, June 16). For his part Senhor Prestes may have mentioned the illness of his wife. She left Rio with him, had to be put ashore sick at Pernambuco, recovered, sailed for Europe last week, and will very shortly meet the President-elect in London or Paris, returning thence with him to become Brazil's First Lady...
...Fifteen guests including the sons of two Presidents (Governor Theodore Roosevelt of Porto Rico and Lawyer Robert Alfonso Taft of Cincinnati) accompanied President Hoover to his Rapidan Camp over the weekend. There they found Mrs. Hoover, convalescing from the injury to her back two months ago. The President caught a 16-in. 2-lb. rainbow trout with a black gnat fly, the season's record for him. Rain and bad weather drove the President and his party back to Washington ahead of time...
...Rapidan Camp President Hoover carried 17 men as weekend guests. Mrs. Hoover, slowly recovering from her seriously sprained back, was still unable to accompany him. Hard rain again interrupted the President's fishing. Four Senators abruptly hastened back to Washington to carry a mysterious message from President Hoover to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot on the final Tariff compromise...
...last moment Senator Smoot, in charge of the bill, received a sudden mysterious message from President Hoover on the Rapidan...