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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...silence emanating from the Administration's busy beaverish heir and beneficiary became, as the hyperbolists said, almost deafening. Following his telegram of the acceptance to the G. 0. P. Convention, Nominee Hoover addressed no word to the U. S. electorate. He actively avoided contact with the nation's press. He shut himself in his big, bare office at the Department of Commerce. He left his chunky political secretary, George Akerson, onetime newsgatherer, to answer all questions. Newsmen remarked that this was but a continuation of the policy adopted by Secretary Hoover ever since he seriously began aligning delegates...
Paris comment, calculating, rational, was well epitomized by that distinguished journalist M. Stephane Lauzanne, writing in the authoritative Matin: "In one word, M. Hoover is the first business man in a country of the biggest business men in the world. Perhaps he may never move crowds with his eloquence nor the world with his declarations in fourteen points. But it is certain that, with him as President, America will never suffer cold, nor hunger, nor privation...
...privilege of Greatness is to speak in words which send common folk ascurrying to dictionaries. Lustrum is such a word. Last week His Excellency General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera, Marquis de Estella, Prime Minister and Dictator of Spain announced...
Spanish scurriers to dictionaries were intrigued and mystified by the primary meaning of lustrum: a Latin word signifying the festival at which Romans purified themselves by sacrificing to the Gods many a pig, sheep, bull. Was beefy Dictator de Rivera announcing Spanish sacrifices of pork, mutton, beef...
Doubts were resolved, wonder ceased when the wires flashed word from Wales that Pilot Wilmer Stultz had guided the Friendship safely to a landing in the Burry inlet on the north side of the Bristol channel. Observed "Lady Lindy," casually: "We are short of gasoline." She was right. The plane had used the last gallon of fuel...