Word: addressing
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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President Hoover made the Legionaires a speech (see p. 14). Calvin Coolidge appeared on the platform and got a thunderous two-minute ovation. Insistent cries of "Speech! Speech!" brought him forward to say: "To save the time of the Convention I will address you in one sentence?You have paid your debt to La Fayette but you still owe a debt to yourselves and to the nation." President Hoover smiled. There was no Hoover-Coolidge hobnobbing. After the Legion speech he proceeded with traffic difficulty to the Hotel Statler where an adulant crowd hustled the President and Mrs. Hoover through...
...importance of housework. You know, I think it takes just as much courage to wash dishes three times a day as it does to go out and shoot a bear." From Indianapolis she went to Bedford, Ohio where she met her husband on his way to Cleveland to address the American Bankers Association. In Mrs. Hoover's absence, Washington socialites commented on her not yet having chosen a successor to the White House social secretary, Mary Randolph, who resigned last spring. Washington decided that Mrs. Hoover intends to be her own hostess this winter, to offer less formal official...
Following the address there will be the election of officers for the coming year, and refreshments will be served...
...Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, citizen of New York, was on hand. Statesman Stimson had served President Hoover like a good lawyer at the London Naval Conference. In much the same legalistic way at Albany he defended and expounded the record of his chief in a keynote address which seemed to set up definitively the national framework for this year's Republican campaign, to foreshadow the basis for Herbert Hoover's bid for renomination and re-election two years hence...
...days earlier, in an address at Philadelphia, Secretary Young had deplored the prevalence of conflicting air commerce laws enacted by state and local governments as "impeding the industry." Possibly with New Jersey's prohibition of seaplane landings on inland lakes (TIME, Sept. 29) in mind, he said: "The only solution is for the states to relinquish all rights to regulate flying and entrust the Federal Government with the development of this industry...