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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...left Washington last week for the first time since inauguration. He was gone eleven hours on an inspection of his Virginia fishing preserve in Shenandoah National Park. He rode a horse ten miles through mountain woods, tramped three miles more on foot, picked out three camping sites between Double-top and Fork Mountains on the Upper Rapidan. In a black riding habit, Mrs. Hoover accompanied him part way. Forbidden to follow, newsgatherers and cameramen had a holiday...
...quite top-notch but cheerfully active is a large group of hostesses who produce parties in the light-opera class. Typical of this group are: Mrs. John B. Henderson, the self-appointed social guardian of the diplomatic corps in Washington, objects to meat, tobacco, alcohol and short skirts-except when bearing foreign labels. She wants to change the name of 16th Street, where stands her famed brown castle, to "The Avenue of the Presidents." Her swimming pool is open to foreigners almost exclusively. Once she offered the nation a home for the Vice President. When it was declined she sold...
...Czechoslovak Automobile Club. Today U. S.-made cars imported into the Republic total more than one-third the number of cars produced within Czechoslovakia. Against this influx Czechoslovakia is struggling Piccolo withher home-made cars, the littlePiccolo Six ($800), the Zetka Six ($1,000), Tatra Two, Four orSix (top price $1,200), Praga Eight ($8,000 to $10,000), and the Skoda Eight ($8,000), made by the notorious old Skoda munitions plant, once the chief arsenal of Imperial Austria and still suspected of supplying arms to China. Czechoslovakia has bought the right to manufacture a lighter model...
...learn last week that the Harvard Medical School will experiment on the same lines. Harvard is installing a steel pressure cylinder 35 ft. long, 8 ft. in diameter, in which investigators can change air pressure from 60 Ibs. per sq. in. to the legerity at the top of Mt. Everest (5 mi. high). Primary studies will be on heart disease, pneumonia, bends...
...Handsome, solemn, gray-haired Charles Cheney, President of Cheney Bros., thought with satisfaction of a letter he had received that week: "The committee recommends that the Craftsmanship Medal be awarded to the Cheney Brothers for the beauty of design and texture in their modern machine woven silks." At the top of the letter was a handsome design: a Doric capital and shaft supported by an American eagle with outspread wings. Beneath this was engraved, "The American Institute of Architects...