THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Feb. 15, 1932

Last week President & Mrs. Hoover held the fifth and largest of the White House winter receptions. Present were officials of the Treasury, Post Office, Interior, Agriculture, Commerce and Labor Departments. Mrs. Hoover appeared wearing a white and blue dimity gown modeled in the fashion of 1870 and copied from one of her mother's photographs. 41, President Hoover busied himself with his anti-hoarding campaign (see below). ΒΆ Entertained at a White House dinner was Speaker of the House John Nance Garner uncomfortable in a new dress suit, together with Henry Ford, Walter...

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