Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Hoover last week spent four days at his White House desk and three days at his Shenandoah National Park camp. For work he held two Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials of Don Ernesto Argueto as Minister from Honduras, received Congressmen and Senators praying for appointment favors, endurance flyers, Filipino businessmen, members of the Order of Railroad Conductors...
...President Hoover appointed John Gerrit Diekema of Holland, Mich., to succeed Richard Montgomery Tobin, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Holland. Minister Diekema, fluent Dutch-speaker, is another feather in the cap of the University of Michigan (see...
...See front cover...
...claimed they still owed him $257,655 for professional services. He had, he stated, been hired to prepare literature, information, data, to write articles, to interview public officials and press representatives, to make speeches in behalf of U. S. shipbuilding from 1926 to 1929. The dullest Congressman could see the connection: Big Navy?more cruisers; more cruisers?more work, more profits, for U. S. shipbuilding companies...
...still light like the sun was about to go down. We all spread out in the cornstalks. I could not see Joe all the time...