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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When Jessie Hoover was twenty-four years old, their first son Theodore better known as (Tad) was born. Three years later Herbert Clark Hoover was born. And then later his sister May. I don't know anything about his sister, but; I can say this, I think she is a very lucky girl to have a brother like Mr. Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: A Good Man | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

...plot revolves about three persons--the young Italian composer who likes to keep his audience waiting, and finds that temperament has serious after-effects; Jan. a harpist, a born trouper and a thoroughly amusing one; and Tad. scion of an old New York family, who behaves is the traditional manner of the reprobate sons whom we have grown to expect in American fiction. How the troupe travels the rocky road to Broadway, only to find the inevitable catastrophe awaiting them, and how the heroine appears at the end in a tent show somewhere in Georgia--all this is told nimbly...

Author: By R. N. C. jr., | Title: Biography | 6/13/1930 | See Source »

...President Robert Todd Lincoln of Pullman Co. Abraham Lincoln II died in London, aged 16, in 1890 while his father was Minister to Great Britain. He was buried in the national Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill., beside his famed grandfather, his grandmother and his Uncles William ("Willie") and Thomas ("Tad"). He was reburied in Arlington National Cemetery beside his father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

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