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...While President Hoover was restfully sunning himself at his Palo Alto home last week, War Debts came crashing back into the headlines just as everyone expected them to do once the election was over. On Dec. 15 Britain is scheduled to pay the U. S. $30,000.000 on debt principal, $65,550.000 on interest; France, $19,261,438 on interest. Only Congress has authority to suspend interest payments, continue the Hoover Moratorium for another year...
...aide knocked on the study door, told the President it was nearly train time. Into a big envelop the loose paragraphs remaining on the table were swept. Out of the study and out of the White House without a backward glance marched the President to start for Palo Alto on his first trip home in four years...
...carried me back every year to sink more deeply the roots of my being in the fertile soil of California's spiritual and cultural life. . . . When. sooner or later, the time arrives which permits me to do so, I propose to return to my home at Palo Alto to live with my fellow Cailfornians...
...There are two people in the United States more than any one else (sic) who are responsible for the great victory. One is my old friend and associate Colonel Louis McHenry Howe and the other is that great American, Jim Farley." President Hoover's message, dispatched from Palo Alto at 9:17 p. m. Pacific time, said: "I congratulate you on the opportunity that has come to you to be of service to the country and I wish for you a most successful administration. In the common purpose of all of us I shall dedicate myself to every possible...
...Press of William Randolph Hearst. One would have thought that the President of the United States coming from California was a monster. If Mr. Hearst represented the ideals and the character of California, he would have been President long ago." Toward dusk, in the big house on the Palo Alto hill, blackboards were set up, just as they had been one triumphant evening in 1928. On that occasion the happy guests and their gravely exalted host had watched the electoral votes of the nation pile up, up, up into the most colossal majority ever polled by a President-elect...