Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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President Hoover's Christmas could be merry after all because last week he won his legislative fight with Congress, wrung from a reluctant and bickering Senate the bills he wanted for Drought and Unemployment relief (see p. 8). It was late when the measures reached the White House for signing. Only two newscamera-men had remained on the chance of getting a picture. When they were ushered into his office, the President raised his head, smiled broadly, asked: "Well, only two photographers...
...Yessir," replied the cameramen as they folded up their tripods and marched out. ¶ To Washington last week as an unofficial White House adviser went another oldtime Hoover friend, Benjamin Day, 58, California lawyer. Mr. Day, without a title, was given an office at Republican national committee headquarters. Gossips insisted he was being groomed for the G. O. P. chairmanship. Others said he would serve President Hoover as a sort of Col. House. All the White House would say was: "Silly...
...executive committee of the Governors' conference met last week in Washington. Afterwards they went to the White House to pay their respects to President Hoover. Rhode Island's Case made the presentations, after announcing that they "didn't want anything." Broke in Virginia's Pollard: "Hold on! The Governor of Rhode Island may not want anything but he's not voicing my sentiments. Down our way we want a whole lot." President Hoover grinned. ¶ Over a new 3,000-mi. wire leased by the Associated Press to connect New York and Mexico City, President...
...straggling rows of little dwellings. At Winston-Salem, east of the course, rises the Camel Cigaret Factory. Then the course goes via Appomattox over the red clay farmlands and scrub forests of eastern Virginia to Richmond's Richard E. Byrd Field. An hour later the plane slips into Hoover-Washington Airport. Here the pilot makes a careful check of weather ahead: fogs from the Chesapeake Bay and Delaware River may be wet.-Setting out again the plane cuts halfway between the Capitol and Washington Monument...
...group of friends gave Commander Evangeline Booth $5,000 to bid up and buy in the ball that was used for the kickoff, inscribed by President Hoover. At a convivial party on the St. Regis roof that night, to which Producers Florenz Ziegfeld and Earl Carroll sent beauteous shows girls for each & every player on the two teams, the ball was presented to Grover Aloysius ("Gardenia") Whalen, who had followed up Sport Editor Paul Gallico's lead in arranging the game...