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This survey report did not, however, deter party leaders at headquarters and political observers elsewhere from reading signs and portents into the Maine result. Republican National Committee Chairman Fess referred to it as "a sweeping victory," "a stinging rebuke to the Democrats," an "endorsement of President Hoover." Democratic Executive Committee Chairman Shouse made much of reduced Republican majorities in Maine, declared his organization had sent no money, no speakers into the State, expressed himself as "thoroughly satisfied" with the outcome...
Popular incomprehension did not, however, deter President Hoover last week from announcing another volunteer survey commission. The White House conference on home building & home ownership, composed of representatives of 19 national organizations under Secretary of Commerce Lament, will, at the President's request, make "a study of the problems presented . . .; with the hope of inspiring better organization and removal of influences which seriously limit the spread of home ownership." Subjects: finance, design, equipment, city planning, transportation. President Hoover wanted to know why second mortgages on homes now often cost 25% per year...
...Today we lack many things appertaining to complete equality. This territory, now evacuated, still is subject to regulations which limit Germany's self-deter-mination and her sovereignty. Even today the German land on the Saar is separated from the mother country, under an administration alien to it. We will hope that our German brothers and sisters on the Saar, to whom we in this hour give a pledge of our gratitude for their loyal attitude, will soon be reunited with us." (Administered by the League today, the Saar will decide by plebiscite in 1935 whether to continue...
Primogeniture and hereditary public office have no place in U. S. tradition. This fact, however, did not last week deter the voters of the 7th Minnesota District from electing by a two-to-one majority Paul John Kvale (pronounced "Ka-volley") of Benson to the Congressional seat for six years occupied by his father, the Rev. Ole John Kvale, whose charred body was last month found in his burned summer cottage (TIME, Sept. 23). Like his father whom he, the eldest of six sons, served as secretary in Washington, Son Kvale was chosen as a Farmer-Laborite and will...
...football season; namely that of attempting to strengthen an apparently weak eleven for the final and crucial tests of its fall campaign. The knowledge that such an accusation would inevitably bring into the public eye questions of good sportsmanship and fair play should alone have been enough to deter those in authority from announcing their decision at such an injudicious moment, however much the general effect may be minimized by Exeter's traditionally high reputation...