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...Rapidan camp President Hoover sat for a whole day pondering ways & means to accelerate the Government's $565,000,000 public building program as an aid to unemployment. With him were Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Ferry K. Heath in charge of such construction and Fourth Assistant Postmaster General John W. Philp. The President's mind was full of the new buildings which would soon replace the temporary Wartime structures of plaster board and stucco in Washington which now house many a potent Government agency, many a precious record. Thoroughly familiar was he with the old warning that...
While the President pondered this problem on the Rapidan, in the Capital 100 mi. away was occurring just the sort of thing that had been predicted. Fire broke out in "Tempo No. 4" quartering the Federal Trade Commission, burned savagely for three hours, gutted the tindery building, injured 20 firemen, destroyed countless Government files and documents.* Lost or damaged were the Trade Commission's records of investigations into chain stores, newsprint, power companies, cottonseed, peanuts. Replacement of some of the data from outside sources was possible, though slow and difficult. The destruction of "Tempo No. 4" gave President Hoover...
...that is beyond any great degree of recovery. . . . From a relief point of view the burden of the problem in the acute area will show very much more vividly over the winter than at the present moment." ¶ Because pious Virginians protested that Marines guarding the President's Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held in the Marine mess hall. The President attended, heard Marines sing hymns to the tune of a small organ lent by the Y. M. C. A. ¶. The Hoover secretariat has long...
Later President Hoover took Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh to his Rapidan camp. Other guests: Assistant Secretary of War Davison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of Commerce Young. Talk topic: aviation, commercial and military. Col. Lindbergh played at throwing darts with his wife, watched others putt around a Tom Thumb golf course built by Marines near the President's camp...
Birthday. Herbert Clark Hoover. Age: 56. Date: Aug. 10. Celebration: pondering the Nation's drought at his Rapidan Camp...