Word: vacationist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Louis McHenry Howe, President Roosevelt's No. 1 secretary, invited the selectmen of the rambling town of Westport, Mass., to his summer cottage at Horseneck Beach. There Vacationist Howe told them that the President might select Westport for an experiment in repopulating abandoned New England farms with destitute farmers from other parts of the country. The selectmen were interested but not excited. "The idea has its faults and its advantages," observed the chairman tersely...
What might well have kept President Hoover from having a guilty conscience about taking a holiday at this time was the presence in Florida of many another famed vacationist. Citizen Calvin Coolidge was gently relaxing from his literary labors at Mount Dora where he and Mrs. Coolidge were the guests of Capt. Archie Hurlburt. Mr. Coolidge had gone fishing only once in a month, had made no use of Capt. Hurlburt's outdoor swimming pool...