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Herbert Hoover: “TO SECURE a short rest and to settle certain administrative problems regarding American possessions in [the] Caribbean…”

On the recordMarch 13, 1931
TO SECURE a short rest and to settle certain administrative problems regarding American possessions in [the] Caribbean, President Hoover will go to Porto Rico and probably to the Virgin Islands next week on the reconditioned battleship Arizona which is undertaking its 10-day test run at sea.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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White House Statement on the President's Caribbean Tour

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