Word: openness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before noon officials began to arrive in their motors to greet President & Mrs. Hoover. Citizen Hunefeld recognized many of them-Vice President Curtis, Speaker Longworth, the British Ambassador in his red jacket. Finally the great White House gates swung open and Citizen Hunefeld marched grandly at the head of his procession up the curving sidewalk to the big glass doors of the White House. When these opened Citizen Hunefeld did a gallant thing: removing his cap, he stepped aside to allow Mrs. Barrett to lead the line past the President...
About the only place in Washington last week where there was no loud talk of Prohibition was at the White House. There President Hoover, puzzled by fresh eruptions on a question the importance of which he believes is exaggerated, kept his mouth closed, his ears open. There was plenty for him to hear...
...year, an election year, brought widespread political stirrings among Senators and would-be Senators. In November, 35 Senate seats will be open to contest-32 routine rotations, plus special elections to fill vacancies in Kansas, Pennsylvania, Ohio. Primary elections to supply senatorial nominees will commence in April. Last week's developments...
Alabama. Banished from his party primary by 27 members of the Democratic State Executive Committee because he deserted Smith in 1928, Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin, who mortally hates and fears the Roman Pope, returned to his State to open a campaign as an independent candidate for reelection. Said he of the "misguided 27": "I'm sorry for them. How pitiful is their lot! How ashamed they must be feeling. . . . But Old Tom will show them the proper way to the light...
This contest is open to any undergraduate student of Harvard, the winner to receive a medal and a cash prize of $250. The basis for the competition is general and specific knowledge of the news of the world over a set period of time. No special preparation in the nature of courses is required nor is any registration necessary. The contest is open to all men in any branch of the College who have an interest in the news, and it is only necessary to appear at the designated hour and place to take the examination...