The Archive · 1929

The Presidents Speech

and Prosperity. the Keynotes Washington, Mar, and prosperity were key-notes of the inaugural address Jof President Merhert Hoover here wilson said to Senator "Tell the Senate that the Pres-dent has no farther" communic tion to make sith it."

To-das's ceremony was colourless Uy comparison. While Mr. Hoover was being entertained by Kepubliean leaders, President Coolidge, showitige no emotion except relict prose his. impe office, quietly rouge to him, The United States, Me. I asserted, haw no t ritorial ambitions jand no desire pansion, The President ranged oer the wile subject of domestic conditions fand foreign relations. Me urged tention from alecholie liquors on the part of the people, strict bed:

ice to the law and respect for ft, azd pleaded with Americans, wherever they may be, tw the ideals of the Declaration of Vice-President Sworn in Vice-President Curtis was sworn in before a joint session of the Senate and the House by the retiring vice-president, Mr. Dawes, and then mad his inaugural spece', nehereapon the usual short special session of the callet Independence and the Const The new Chief Executive dealt /aé tezith with the question of peace. emphasizing his belief that America has territory enough and shoul! ive in harmony with the nations jof the world. The dangers to. 2 [eo: tinuation of peace, he said, are after the regular 70th Congress had leon formally This epceial vession of the ited. States, cicputes the Presi rxreement should "pave the way! for a fveater Timi meats after

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