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...real rest" was what President Hoover sought last weekend at his Rapidan camp. He read newspapers, napped, strolled about, gazed at mountain trout, got his mind completely off business...
...drought, North American waterfowl were distantly threatened with extermination. The President met this emergency with a proclamation reducing the shooting season on ducks, geese, brant and coot from three months to one (see p. 51). ¶ Another White House proclamation: Fire Prevention Week (Oct. 4-10). ¶ To his Rapidan camp the President took for a week-end outing Publishers Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News and Warren Fairbanks of the Indianapolis News. There he left them to their own amusement long enough to discuss arms limitation with Assistant Secretary of State Rogers, anti-trust laws with Assistant Attorney...
...Half way to his Rapidan camp for the weekend, President Hoover ordered his car stopped for a picnic luncheon. Over a seven-rail fence the President helped his guests, then followed in two steps. Sandwiches and drinks were brought from the trunk rack, spread under big Virginia oaks. Motorists paused along the highway, gaped at their President having...
...President took the problem with him over the weekend to his Rapidan Camp where he pondered unemployment insurance methods with Rhode Island's Senator Felix Hebert, just back from a European study...
...days before the London conference, Ambassador Edge telephoned the White House from Paris that "things look all right." President Hoover packed up and went happily to the Rapidan for the weekend. With him he took Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board to discuss U. S. participation in any German Loan. Also taken along for an emergency was Miss Anne Shankey, one of the President's alert stenographers...