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Most of the civilized world last week bated its breath on the eve of President-elect Roosevelt's White House conference with President Hoover on War Debts. All Europe had the idea that its economic fate was in the four hands-two of them long and sinewy, the other two white and heavy -at the White House table. Most U. S. citizens previewed the meeting as necessary and important but not epochal. Day after his return from California President Hoover picked up his desk telephone to find Governor Roosevelt talking from his Albany study. Their opening exchanges were easy...
Before starting for Washington to confer with President Hoover on War Debts, President-elect Roosevelt spent a quietly busy week which, for him, began in his big, high-backed mahogany bed in the Albany Executive Mansion. Recovering from a mild attack of influenza, he wore a blue silk dressing gown over a white sweater and pajamas when a dozen newsmen trooped into his high-ceiled bedroom for an interview. His bed was littered with letters and telegrams. On a table stood a glass of milk...
What Had Happened? President von Hindenburg, according to his entourage, did not entrust Herr Hitler with an official mandate to form a Cabinet as Chancellor, did authorize him to confer with party leaders and report back to the President whether a Cabinet having a majority in the Reichstag could be formed. This left completely open the question of who should be Chancellor...
...loath to proceed with recommendations to the Congress until I can have an opportunity to confer with you personally. . . . There are also other important questions as to which I think an interchange of views will be in the public interest. ... A world economic conference will be held during the coming winter. . . . Parallel with this is the Disarmament Conference...
...Investment Bankers Association scurrying home from the convention at Quebec. They arrived in time for the first big stockmarket break, the anniversary of which came last week (16,410,000 shares, ticker two and one-half hours late, Telephone at 204 -28, Allied Chemical at 204 -14. "Leaders Confer, Find Conditions Sound"). Last week nothing broke up the convention. They heard Arthur Atwood Ballantine, Undersecretary of the Treasury, make such observations as: "What the position of the Government will be at the end of the fiscal year 1933 depends upon total expenditures and revenues for the full twelve-months period...