Chavles Curtis was augurated ise Vieo-President.
The centre of world interest, ae~ claimed by thousands in the nation's capital and millions throughout the the two new executives of the tes have had. typically Hoover took hig oath of office on the' lest steps of the building before 2 crowd of upwards of 100,000 persons, including some $,000 seated in the official stands erected for diplomats and official guests. The oath was administered by the Chief Justjec of the Supreme Court, Mr. William Howard Taft, who, unt!
Coolidge left office, was living ex-president of the Woth had obscure, small town innings. Hoover' is. of Quaker orig grandmother was Dal French and half Indian, Both. Nad to struggle hard to get an! education, Curtis was once a Jerkey. Hoover became a world traveller, a cosmopolite while Curtis. became politician and a power in the United States Senate, As President Hoover returned (0 the White House and tis went to the customary Views sidential suite in an hotel, Calvin Coolidge, whose championship. of American interests has made him world figure, and Charles G. Dawes, whose name was given the German reparations settlement, became private citizens.
The joint committee of the Senate and House of Representatives called fon Mr. Hoover in his home this morning and escorted the former reeretary of commerce to the White House. President Coolidge accompanied the new executive to the Capitol in an automobile. followed by a military escort. Thousands cheered ax the incoming and outgoing Presidents rode Mr. Coolidge x usual ponding and stiff, Jeaving the Dest port of the applause to Thi successor. "Mr, Hoover was only slightly more expan Both differed reatly from many of their predecessors, the magnetic Roosevelt, the jovial Taft and. the crusader Wilson, "Mr. Coolidge appeared the cold technician of polities, Hoover the technician of cngineeting and then made his inaugural address, speak-lifers whic several hundred undress completed, the Presiden and Mrs, Hoover entered autonsobile andi sped up Pennsy!- ne, the White House, their home for the next four years, wav the signal for the start of the inaugural parade of 20,000 persons which passed beween lines! [of thousands of men, women and children who roared their approval of their new President.
The Parade With an advance fleet of aeroplanes soaring overhead the parade mover slowly up the avenue, taking two, hours to pass a given point. Units the Regular Navy and the} 'Marine Corps stationed in and ne ashington were in the first ection, marching to the tune of military bands, with bayonets; fishing, caissons rumbling' cavalry horses' hoofs ringing on the yavament. Behind them were units of the National Guard and the organized reserves, In the second di ion were the! governors of the States of the! union, with their escorts, A typically American flair was lent #2) the parade by the presence of feather-al, mocassined representatives of the Indian tribes and yelling cowboys viding wild prairie. ponies. Other units in the parade were the national war veterans otani tions, patriotic societies, and units from' clubs and churches,
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