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...great has been the Virginia drought that the water in the cistern at the Rapidan camp was last week reduced to a few inches. On the advice of caretakers the President limited his week-end guest list to three. At the camp he saw his son Herbert Hoover Jr. who next month will be removed to Asheville, N. C., to continue his fight against tuberculosis...
...Rapidan camp went President Hoover for a short weekend. He found his son Herbert who is fighting off tuberculosis "doing very nicely." Mrs. Hoover developed a slight cold...
...ninth" at Rapidan You will hear 'em shouting...
...flat tire, first of the year, was what President Hoover's automobile got last week as it carried him from his Rapidan camp back to the White House. At the camp remained Herbert Hoover Jr. According to Dr. Joel T. Boone, Herbert Hoover Jr. has tuberculosis in its initial stage. The lung lesion is small, full recovery is anticipated. (¶To be U. S. Minister to Liberia President Hoover last week, as custom dictated, appointed a Negro, Charles E. Mitchell, business manager of the West Virginia State College for Negroes...
President & Mrs. Hoover and Herbert Hoover Jr. weekended at the Rapidan camp, for the first time this year taking along no guests, no work. ¶ To reduce the influx of alien labor and thereby relieve U. S. unemployment, the President ordered the State Department to tighten up its enforcement of the "public charge" provision of the Immigration Law. Under this provision U. S. consuls will be instructed to exercise their discretionary power to refuse passport visas to all non-preference quota immigration applicants unless each can convincingly refute the presumption that upon arrival in the U. S. he will join...