Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...were moved the full-length White House portraits of George and Martha Washington. . . . Upstairs, in an alcove off his study, Herbert Hoover has hung a growing collection of portraits of himself. Mostly by amateurs, mostly crude and amusing, all gifts, they are what President Hoover calls his "one-man show...
What the figures do not and cannot show is added expenses which Congress may vote; the appropriation of large sums already authorized, such as the $350,000,000 which the Federal Farm Board may call for at any time...
...Kansas cyclone is a conventional, straightforward sort of catastrophe which comes, blows, goes. More whimsical is a Florida hurricane. Last week residents of Florida's east coast, warned of a hurricane offshore, lashed their awnings, took down their swinging signs, boarded up their show windows, brought home emergency rations, crowded into the supposedly safer southeast rooms of their houses, waited. Still the hurricane dallied among the Bahamas...
...National Dairy Show at St. Louis...
...omitted the formality of providing himself with the proper passport and immigration papers. Dr. Huey is wanted by the State Department, and will be kept under cover until things are fixed up by Charlie Apted, guardian plenipotentiary of Harvard University and her treasures. As soon as he may show himself about the Square with some degree of immunity, at least from the federal officers, the CRIMSON promises to hold a public reception for the great Oriental dopester to introduce in person this new star on the Cambridge horizon to his vast public...