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Commission. The Tariff Commission was changed back into a bi-partisan organization responsible to Congress, contrary to President Hoover's wishes...
...their bi-weekly conferences with the Press, Presidents often say many a confidential thing designed only for the discreet ears of working newsmen. Last week President Hoover tightened the admission to these conferences, caused all newsmen to sign pledges that they were not connected with any brokerage tipping service...
Professor Hart then launched into an explanation of the Washington bi-centenary celebration in 1932. "The most beautiful boulevard in the world, costing $4,250,000 will be completed by that year. It will extend for 14 miles between Washington and Mt. Vernon, will be 200 feet wide, and," he added with a chuckle, "the appropriation was passed by Congress a few days ago, but the newspapers seem to have overlooked it." Professor Hart explained that he is now engaged in the preparation of a 25-volumes edition of Washingtoniana. This edition will contain photographic copies of every known...
...Harvard junior, second son of Franklin Delano Roosevelt has been practicing football in the afternoons and stumping Massachusetts for the Brown Derby in the evening. The evening that his father accepted the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York, James Roosevelt was speaking on the Democratic side of a bi-partisan radio program. His partner was Miss Sarah Jackson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jackson, National Committeeman and Committeewoman of New Hampshire. Their opponents were Maxon H. Eddy, Yale football captain, and Miss Elizabeth Hughes, daughter of Charles Evans Hughes...
...belief that provision for a bi-partisan tariff commission promotes rather than eliminates politics. I would ask Congress to give me authority to appoint a tariff commission of five members from among the best qualified in the country to deal with the problem irrespective of party affiliations, with a salary sufficiently large to induce them to devote themselves exclusively to this important work...