Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-01
PRESIDENT HOLDS
ANNUAL RECEPTION
White House Welcome All
Who Come in New Year
Reception.
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were the members of the diplomatic
corps, headed by Don Manuel C. Teller,
Mexican Ambassador, dean of the corps.
Following these distinguished repre-
sentatives of foreign countries came the
members of the judiciary, with Charles
Evans Hughes, Chief Justice of the
United States, in the lead This, by
the way, Is Chief Justice Hughes first
appearance at a New Year day recep-
ton in his present position. Behind
him came the associate justices of the
United States Supreme Court; then the
presiding judge and associate judges of
the Court of Customs and Patent APP
peals; then the chief justice and as
sociate justices of the Court of Appeals
of the District of Columbia; then the
chief justice and associate justices of
the Court of Claims; then the chief
justice and associate justices OF the
Supreme Court of the District of Co
lumbia.
When the members of this august
group had filed past the receiving line
there appeared the members of the
Senate and House of Representatives
and the Delegates in Congress, the IL
brarian of Congress, the Commission
public printer.
Army, Navy and Marines.
Next in line were the high ranking
officers of the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps, the staff of the commanding
general of the District Militia, Coast
Guard, United States Public Service
and the officers of the Coast and Geo.
detic Survey.
The section included mostly officials
Of the Government and their wives,
among them being the chief executive
assistants of members of the cabinet
the regents and secretary of the Smith
Sonian Institution, the Civil Service
Commissioners, the Interstate Com
merce Commissioners, the members of
the Federal Reserve Board, the Federal
Trade Commissioners, the United States
Tariff Commissioners, the Commission
ers of the United States Shipping Board,
the trustees of the United States Ship
ping Board Merchant Fleet Corpora
ton, Federal Farm Board, National
Commission on Law Observance and
Enforcement, the members of the
United States Board of Mediation, the
United States Employees Compensation
Commissioners, the members of the Fed
eral Board for Vocational Education, the
Federal Farm Loan Board, the United
State Board Of Tax Appeals, the Ma
tional Advisory Committee for Aero
nautics, the Federal Radio Commission,
the Director of the United States Vet
Grams Administration, the chairman of
the American National Red Cross, the
chief OF the United States Bureau of
Efficiency, the alien property custo-
dian, the United States Railroad Ad-
miniStration, the Federal Power Com
mission, the Federal Oil Conservation
Board, the Commission of Fine Arts,
the heads of the bureaus in the several
departments, the president of the Co
lumbia Institution for the Deaf and
Dumb
Others to Be Received.
BY this time it was drawing on to-
ward noon. At this juncture the repre-
sentatives Of patriotic, veterans and
civic bodies were received. In this pic
turesque section were the Society of the
Cincinnati, the Aztec Club of 1847, the
Associated Veterans of the War of
1846-47. the Military Order of the Loyal
Legion Of the United States, the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Medal of
Honor Legion, the Union Veteran Le-
g1on, the Union Veterans Union, Vet
Grams Of Foreign Wars, the Society of
the Army of Santiago, the Spanish
War Veterans, the American Legion, the
Army and Navy Union, the Minute
Men, the Society of Colonial Wars, the
Sons of the American Revolution, the
Sons of the Revolution, the members of
the Oldest Inhabitants Association of
the District of Columbia.
When the last of these had received
the cordial greetings from the Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hoover an hour recess
was entered upon for the purpose Of
affording them and those assisting them
to rest and to partake of luncheon.
AT the conclusion Of the recess the
reception was resumed and persons in
the long public line were greeted.
No time has been set for bringing
this democratic portion of the recep-
ton to an end. It has been the GUS
tom to receive just so long as the pub
lie line continues