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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Press to make this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual presidential guard. ... Its only task is to keep its own quarters in condition...
With these words and a few more President Hoover last week started the Federal Farm Board off on its long task of jacking husbandry up out of its economic bog. The President met the Board for an hour in the Cabinet Room. One place on the Board remained vacant: A member to represent Wheat, whom President Hoover had not yet been able to find. Two last-minute Board appointees: William Frank Schilling of Northfield, Minn, to represent Dairy Interests; Charles S. Wilson of Hall, N. Y. to represent truck-gardeners...
...vain. The H-47 lay in 324 feet of water. A gale was rising. In the House of Commons Britain's new First Sea Lord, Albert Victor Alexander, onetime railway yardworker, had his first important task in breaking the news of the disaster. He was obliged to conclude: "Steps are being taken with all despatch to locate the H-47. ... No hope can be entertained of any of the remainder of the crew being alive...
...thorough inquiry to see if it can be enforced and, if not, what are the remedies. . . . But both the President and his Commission have gone as far afield as possible. . . . The investigation will not be through in one year or in two. Why, the stupendous task of investigating all lawlessness and of a readjustment of all judicial procedure is just as impossible of accomplishment in my lifetime or in the President's tenure of office as anything I can think of. . . . If Prohibition is not effectively enforced until that is done, we will have mighty little Prohibition in this country...
...talk of naval reduction turned attention to Britain's new First Lord of the Admiralty, Albert Victor Alexander, whose first task may be to scrap some of the proud ships he now commands. Labor Sea Lord Alexander is a former Baptist lay preacher, the son of a railway engineer. Like the admiral in Pinafore, he "polished up the handles so care-ful-lee, that now he is the ruler of the King's navee." Earnest, hard working, his appointment was greeted with disdainful sniffs in Tory circles which consider the post of First Lord of the Admiralty...