President Hoover last week spent four days at his White House desk and three days at his Shenandoah National Park camp. For work he held two Cabinet meetings, attended an American Legion baseball game, listened to Senator George Higgins Moses talk New England politics (see p. 16), accepted the credentials of Don Ernesto Argueto as Minister from Honduras, received Congressmen and Senators praying for appointment favors, endurance flyers, Filipino businessmen, members of the Order of Railroad Conductors.
For play he toted rocks to make a chimney at his camp’s “civic centre.”
¶President Hoover appointed John Gerrit Diekema of Holland, Mich., to succeed Richard Montgomery Tobin, resigned, as U. S. Minister to Holland. Minister Diekema, fluent Dutch-speaker, is another feather in the cap of the University of Michigan (see p. 12).
¶ To Washington last week went a diamond-studded grand cross of the Order of the Sun of Peru, addressed to President Hoover. Secretary of State Stimson prepared to put it away in a department vault until the President becomes again a private citizen and constitutionally eligible to receive foreign decorations.
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