Word: said
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President. As a special treat, the President introduced his benefactor to a tall curly-haired man. Ray was not impressed?he had never heard of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh. Last week Pa Burraker and President Hoover settled down in a couple of chairs under the trees. The President said that he "and his friends" would contribute $1,200 to build a schoolhouse where Ray, and 19 other children of five families living thereabouts, could be educated. The nearest schoolhouse now is 20 miles away...
...Hoover have not passed a day without having guests at one or more meals. Some 1,400 guests ate at the White House in a little over six months, including 200 house guests and 250 week-end guests at the Virginia camp. Wholesale savings on butter, eggs, bread, tradesmen said, could have been considerable. But the U. S. Government has no cause to object. Food eaten by all except official guests is paid for out of the President's private pocket...
...week, distracted by Tariff, World Court, Arms Reduction and Republican National Committee, he sent his trusted secretary George Akerson to fill his appointment with the press. This Official Spokesman, strikingly Hooveresque in physical appearance, once a news-gatherer himself (Minneapolis Tribune), had nothing of world import to impart. He said that if Chief Justice William Howard Taft intended to resign, the President had not been so informed; and that if Governor Fred Warren Green of Michigan* (who had arrived that morning to spend a few days at the White House) were going to become Secretary of Labor when James John...
District penal institutions, explained that the rides were merely jail routine. Said he: "The board of Public Welfare felt, however, that the publicity given Sinclair's assignment made it unwise to continue him in that capacity. It is very unfortunate that this should happen, for some people will regard the board's order as an act of discrimination against Mr. Sinclair...
...more in tariff duties than is legally collectible. Recently persons not so ignorant of the law as the average tourist began to make in- quiries. Last week, Customs officials publicly admitted that tourists have for years paid millions of dollars more in tariff duties than the law authorizes. "Ah," said cynics, "the shoes of dishonesty fit many feet...