Word: walks
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Next day President Hoover broke his customary routine by taking a two-mile walk through the downtown streets of Washington. After breakfast he signed "with particular satisfaction" the Rivers & Harbors Bill (see p. 19) and issued a proclamation: "Whereas public interests require that the Senate of the United States be convened . . . to consider and determine whether the advice and consent of the Senate shall be given to the ratification of a treaty for the limitation and reduction of naval armaments signed at London . . . Now, therefore, I, Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim and declare...
...moral fibre: ". . . its founders . . . sought to live in the things of the spirit. They put first things first, They set small store on the things that are temporal but strove mightily for the things that are eternal. If this nation is to endure, we shall have to continue to walk by their light...
...cents the glass. There is little or no homebrewing because the liquor market is too wide open. Chesapeake Bay shipping provides wealthy Vets with expensive foreign goods. As U. S. attorney Mr. Woodcock used to leave his apartment on Charles Street every evening at 10 o'clock, walk to the corner drug store, toss down a milk shake, Coca Cola or lime phosphate. Once he set Baltimore tongues to wild wagging by escorting Mrs. Willebrandt to the opera. He failed to convict John Philip Hill, flagrantly Wet onetime Congressman, for public home-brewing in Baltimore...
...until after the November elections instead of at a special-for-Senators-only session immediately following the present one. Dolefully Leader Watson explained that the Senate had been in continuous session for 16 months and was exhausted. He warned that at a special session the Senate was likely to walk out on the President and leave his Treaty dangling midair, either by voting to adjourn sine die or by deliberate failure to produce a quorum. To these arguments the President was adamant. He flatly refused to consider any program of postponement...
...Harvard team was responsible for at least one error with the exception of Mays, Huxtable, and the three pitchers. Nugent was injured in the first inning and that may have accounted for his sloppy fielding later in the game. In that frame Mays went to first on a walk and Nugent followed with a scratch hit. MacGrath then sent the ball between first and second and while Marshall was fielding it Nugent collided with him. Time was taken out for the Harvard captain but he continued the game...