Word: states
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...results have not yet been officially rechecked and published. The latest count compiled by Current History shows Hoover 21,409,215, Smith 15,042,366. When a final count of the 1928 popular vote is available, TIME will print it, State by State...
...state banquet that evening, President Irigoyen, whose public silences have really been even more impressive than Calvin Coolidge's, surprised everyone by standing up and making a speech. Mr. Hoover had prepared a speech and given it to Ambassador Fletcher to read for him. When President Irigoyen sat down, President-Elect Hoover returned the compliment by recovering his own manuscript and reading it himself. An interpreter was necessary to render from English to Spanish. Mrs. Hoover speaks Spanish with moderate fluency but Mr. Hoover has never progressed beyond the meal-ordering stage...
...Hoover sent word to Secretary of State Kellogg, in Washington, that he wished to communicate with him directly over a special radiotelegraph hookup. Secretary Kellogg went to the State Department's telegraph room. Mr. Hoover stood near a key in the Buenos Aires embassy and dictated what he wanted to say. Secretary Kellogg read the messages as his operator typed them out. He dictated replies. The substance of the conversation was that Mr. Hoover was enjoying himself among courteous friends; that President Coolidge, Secretary Kellogg and the U.S. people were glad to hear it and thanked the friends, sent...
...honorary President of the American Red Cross, President Coolidge appointed members to its Central Committee-to continue as chairman, John Barton Payne; to represent the State Department, Undersecretary Mills; War, Surgeon-General Ireland; Navy, Captain Charles Edward Riggs; Justice, Solicitor-General Mitchell...
...between the hatcheteering and the bricking, W. Harold Lane, chief of Federal Prohibition agents in Kansas City, let it be known that there are more speakeasies in Kansas City today than there were legitimate bars before Prohibition. Federal and State officials put heads together for an enforcement drive...