Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idleness, even under the guise of official duty, President Hoover has no use. Last week he prepared to put his new military aides-Lieut. Col. Campbell B. Hodges, U.S.A. and Capt. Allen Buchanan, U.S.N.-to work. Col. Hodges reported for duty last week at the White House from West Point, where he was Commandant of Cadets. He found a shiny new desk awaiting him in the executive offices. Similar equipment will be ready for Captain Buchanan when he comes to the White House from the U. S. S. Omaha in a few weeks...
...large unmarked car rolled out of the White House grounds. At the wheel was Mrs. Hoover. With her rode Mrs. Adolph Ochs, Mrs. Edgar Rickard, Miss Margaret Rickard. They drove around the Tidal Basin, saw the cherry blossoms, circled the Lincoln Memorial. As Mrs. Hoover turned homeward into West Executive Ave. a motorist swung into a parking space, missed it, backed out to try again, thus blocking traffic. Mrs. Hoover gave her horn an impatient toot. Not recognizing her, the motorist signaled the First Lady to "pipe down." She did, smiling...
...organization, a President and his staff need elbow room. Last week bids were received for enlarging the interior of the Stanford-White-designed executive offices. Low bidder ($15,225) was the N. P. Severin Co. of Chicago. The basement will be renovated as office and storage space. The West embankment will be cut away to the street to permit basement windows...
...process of building the Panama Canal, symbolic of great labor, was painted by Jonas Lie (pronounced Lee), famed Scandinavian-born U. S. artist.* Last week twelve of his paintings were purchased anonymously in Manhattan for presentation to the U. S. Military Academy in memory of the West Pointer who, as chief engineer, was most potent in channeling the isthmus-the late General George W. Goethals...
Credit for I.T.&T.'s spectacular rise is given, and properly, to the Brothers Sosthenes and Hernand Behn. French and Danish by ancestry, they were born in the West Indies near the birthplace of Alexander Hamilton. In the last 15 years, they have won enviable war records, become friends and allies of kings, made great fortunes in the company which they dominate, Sosthenes as president, Hernand as executive vice-president...