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...Janeiro* hospitable President Washington Luis of Brazil moved out of his official residence, Guanabara Palace, and in for 60 hours moved Mr. & Mrs. Hoover. Last week U. S. servants at the Meyer mansion were informed that they must not ascend to the second floor, where the President-elect, dynamic, Rooseveltian, big-boned, occupied Mrs. Meyer's pink-draped bedroom. The Prestes' own Brazilian "man" served his master's frugal breakfasts ? with emphasis on large tumblers of iced orange juice, heaping plates of grapes, and, of course, rolls with Brazilian coffee...
...Solicitor General of the U. S., at 44 Governor of the Philippines; at 47 Theodore Roosevelt, Harvard '80, who loved "Will" Taft well enough to let him snooze in the strenuous Rooseveltian presence, took him into his cabinet as Secretary of War, groomed him for the Presidency...
Publisher Hearst was just 24 hours late. President Hoover had already made a move no less Hooveresque than Rooseveltian...
...life of Senator Theodore Elijah Burton of Ohio, the President's good friend and campaign supporter, ill for weeks following an attack of influenza (TIME, Oct. 14). Back from Ohio, President Hoover again visited the dying scholar, statesman, peace-lover, whose interest in waterways was recognized by Rooseveltian appointment to chairmanship of the Inland Waterways Commission 22 years ago. Mr. Burton died full of years (77) and honor...
...book that is a medley of anecdotage about his clan's everyday affairs, many of which have been set down in his father's letters or elsewhere. The burial of pets, camping, meals, games, sports are all dealt with in a fair approximation of the traditionally wholesome Rooseveltian manner...