Bold indeed would a Cabinet member be to go on a summer holiday without his President's consent. Because President Hoover has continued to work through Washington's great heat, his Cabinet has remained dutifully by his side. In tropical garb—linen suits, white flannels, mohairs, panama hats, white shoes—they have trooped in and out of the White House to the semiweekly Cabinet meetings where they silently envied the President his cool quarters. When President Hoover fortnight ago publicly announced his intention to take his vacation this month in the Rocky Mountains, his official...
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