Word: sans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Personal Representative Fletcher joined the Hoover party at San Pedro...
...Hoover and the younger son, Allan Hoover, were in the party; also Secretaries George Akerson and Ruth Fessler; John G. Mott of San Francisco, the Hoover attorney; Commander Augustin T. Beauregard, naval aide to the President-Elect...
...San Pedro harbor fluttered with bunting, resounded with saluting cannon. The U. S. S. Maryland steamed out; first stop Corinto, Nicaragua. When the Hoovers went to their cabin Mrs. Hoover had to admire the first vanity dresser ever installed on a U. S. warship. Mr. Hoover, unpacking, cast a bright eye on his new-bought kit of deep-sea fishing tackle. Watching the lazy Pacific swells some of his first thoughts were about the monster sailfish, amber-jacks, tuna, wahoos, crevalles and yellowtails that live off the coast of Lower California and in the tide-rips from there to Chile...
...Rudolph did not retire. What held him back was another battle, again with his father. Father Claus, standing at his open window had sneezed, once, twice, three times. To the gas company whose plant was pouring smoke over San Francisco Father Claus sent a vigorous protest. He started a gas company of his own, deliberately set out to drive the San Francisco Gas Co. to the rocks. But Son Rudolph, on the verge of retirement, was a stockholder in the besieged company. When the stock fell, he gained control, cut out $300,000 waste, whipped Father Claus a second time...
...Mencken was mentioned last fortnight by the Communist New Masses as follows: "George Sterling committed suicide about a year ago, in San Francisco, after a night spent in conversation with H. L. Mencken...