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...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...
...Judge John Johnston Parker, Supreme Court rejectee; 4) Frank Morrison, secretary of the American Federation of Labor with a plea against curtailed Navy Yard employment; 5) Professor Enrico Glickenstein, Polish drypoint etcher; 6) Dr. William Oxley Thompson, president emeritus of Ohio State University; 7) Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico, asking for a $3,000,000 relief fund; 8) Charles C. Younggreen, president of the Advertising Federation of America and delegates to the Federation's Washington Convention; 9) Lewis A. Yancey, U. S.-to-Rome flyer; 10) 30 radio performers seeking publicity. President Hoover dropped work...
Poet Carl Sandburg, onetime roustabout, hay pitcher, milkwagon driver, stove polisher, house painter, soldier (in the Spanish-American War in Porto Rico with the 6th Illinois Volunteers), newspaperman, is 52, married (he has three daughters), lives in Elmhurst, Ill. Long-haired, lanky-limbed, seamed of face, he likes to recite poetry, sing folk songs, while he accompanies himself on his guitar. Says he: "Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits." Other books: Chicago Poems, Corn Huskers,' The Chicago Race Riots, Smoke and Steel, Slabs of the Sunburnt West, Rootabaga Stones, Rootabaga-Pigeons, Abraham Lincoln...
...been warned by local women that still she would not "do" socially. Apparently too shrewd to care, she prepared to return to London. One of the other women to sell stock last week was McKinney's widow, credited with having 30% of the total. *Spain, Cuba, Mexico, Porto Rico, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil...
March 22?Emancipation Day in Porto Rico...