Word: wintered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secretary Hyde. Prime issue in the campaign, farm relief has continued a prime activity of the new administration When President-Elect Hoover summoned Arthur Mastick Hyde to dine with him last winter in Florida (a social summons which greatly perturbed Mr. Hyde because he had no evening clothes with him) Mr. Hoover offered him the post of Secre- tary of Agriculture with the warning that it would be one of the hardest and busiest in the new Cabinet. Mr. Hyde reluctantly accepted with that understanding...
Harry Manning, first officer of the S.S. America, hero of the rescue of the crew of the S.S. Florida last winter, appeared in a New York City court to testify that a friend arrested for speeding had been hurrying him to the hospital. When the friend was fined Hero Manning remarked: "Five months ago Mayor Walker gave me the keys to the City of New York. But I guess they are no good here...
Like all such maneuvers, the Battle of Rancocas Creek, observers agreed, will be detailed to Congress next winter as an argument to show the need for increased appropriations for national defense...
Since last winter Curtiss Flying Service, as sales agents for Curtiss, Curtiss-Robertson, Cessna, Ireland, Command-aire and Sikorsky planes, has been advertising with confident emphasis...
...diphtheria, and advice to use toxin-antitoxins. Aboard each car he loaded a doctor, two nurses and a refrigerator full of toxin-antitoxin. Then these "healthmobiles" rolled forth among the city's millions like itinerant waffle carts. Spectacular, convenient, they "sold" the idea of preparing in July for winter's diphtheria, administered great numbers of immunizing doses, all gratis...