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Meanwhile Mr. Huston clung stubbornly to his chairmanship. His friends implored him to resign for the party's good, which he vehemently refused to do. He kept far away from the White House, perhaps lest President Hoover see him, demand his resignation. In the Senate, Democrats primed their fowling pieces to blaze away at Mr. Huston when Muscle Shoals legislation, on which he had lobbied, came up there this week...
Politics dazzled the Allies at Versailles, said Mr. Young, by telling them they could collect 33 billion dollars from Germany. Inflation, followed by hard times, brought Economics to Europe's rescue, and the Allies finally agreed with Germany under Mr. Young's chairmanship that the practical amount to be paid is nine billions...
These factors, climaxed by last week's revelations, lent substance to the belief that he would be eased out of the G. O. P. chairmanship in some way that would save his and his party's face. Joseph Randolph Nutt, G. O. P. Treasurer, called on President Hoover last week, presumably to tell him that the party could collect no funds for the 1930 campaign if Mr. Huston remained in office...
...second of a series of conferences leading up to the annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association on Saturday will be held tomorrow night in Emerson D at 8 o'clock. Under the chairmanship of Associate Professor F. T. Spaulding '16, the conference will discuss secondary education, a problem which has been a controversial subject in academic circles during the past half year...
...Congress: A regular conservative G. O. Partisan, he has made no great name for himself in the Senate. Seniority of service has elevated him to the chairmanship of the Senate Committee on Post Offices & Post Roads, a position that gives him a small patronage potency The most famed legislation bearing his name prohibits the shipment of firearms through the mails. This measure was handed him ready-made by the Post Office Department and he did not even perspire in getting the Senate to pass...