THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 27, 1930

President Hoover's autographed photograph was on its way last week through the Red Sea to Abyssinia as his coronation present to Ras Tafari, "King of Kings." Germany's President von Hindenburg also sent a signed picture of himself, together with 500 bottles of fine Rhine wine.

ΒΆ So great has been the Virginia drought that the water in the cistern at the Rapidan camp was last week reduced to a few inches. On the advice of caretakers the President limited his week-end guest list to three. At the camp he saw his son Herbert...

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