Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidency was moved 200 ft. westward last week when President Hoover officially crossed West Executive Avenue. Flanked by Secretaries George Akerson and Walter Newton, the President marched up the steep outside steps of the State, War & Navy building, climbed the sharply curving inside stairway to the third floor, entered the ornate office of General John Joseph Pershing, Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. There he was officially greeted by his Secretaries of State and of War who work in the same building. Clerks peeped in at him, buzzed with excitement at having "the Chief" under their roof...
With paternal benignity, into the ears of 16 Senate pages (average age: 12) gathered around a turkey-laden table in the basement of the Capitol, last week rolled these words...
Friends of that high-minded Mormon, Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, were startled last week to learn how he was spending his holidays. Thoroughly, searchingly he was reading salacious books, one after another. Carefully he was blue-pencilling the most lascivious passages, turning down pages for future reference...
...delegate died of overwork in those five months. Never in his life did Mr. Young have to subject himself to such severe physical discipline as then to keep going. He got away from Paris for exactly one week-end-and got back to find weeks of work virtually undone. The other delegates were at each other's throats. It took him three days to restore harmony. On three other occasions the conference was actually declared dead-but he revived it. For besides the stupendous detail and the baffling interplay of economic facts and factors, he had to cope with...
...Federal Farm Board, tobacco is an agricultural product worthy of relief. To the Treasury, tobacco is a highly valuable tax-producing commodity which brings in some 434 millions, or one-eighth of all U. S. internal revenue. Last week, Treasury and Farm Board braced themselves for a tug-of-war over the tobacco...