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...ulcerated tooth kept Secretary of Agriculture Hyde off the stump. After talking himself hoarse in Connecticut, Secretary of Labor Doak rested up at "Notre Nid" ("Our Nest"), his Potomac home, before invading West Virginia and Illinois. Alice Roosevelt Longworth was to make her single contribution to the Hoover campaign in the form of a speech at Indianapolis in mid-October. Calvin Coolidge, whose Hoover appeals have so far been only in writing, was scheduled to raise his voice for the party in Manhattan Oct. 11. Republican headquarters had 260 volunteer stumpsters of high & low degree to turn loose...
...protest to the Doak Resolution prohibiting foreign students from earning their way through college was drafted last night by the Foreign Students' Committee of Phillips Brooks House. The protest is to be indorsed by the faculty committee on foreign students and will be directed to Secretary Doak and to President Hoover...
...Hunnewell '02, Secretary of the Corporation, has received from the Department of Labor notice of the Doak order forbidding students admitted to the United States under a non-quota basis from working to meet their expenses. The number of men at Harvard last year who were admitted in this classification was approximately 100 men, or one-third of the total group of foreign students in attendance at the University...
...work. The regulation primarily checks persons with little academic purposes in mind, who enroll in a university such as Columbia, for example, with the occult aim of living and working in the United States without coming in under the quota regulation. "These pseudo students deserve the restriction that the Doak ruling is destined to give. The deplorable fact is that a somewhat scattered group of foreign students, some of whom are dependent on their part time earnings to fulfill scholarship obligations, and whose jobs cannot greatly relieve domestic unemployment, are to be deprived of work to help them meet expenses...
Last spring Secretary of Labor Doak told newsmen that he had been supplied departmental data which showed that employment was increasing throughout the land. Fooled before by such cheery statements from politically-minded Secretaries, the reporters went to see Commissioner Stewart to check up. The white-crowned, white-whiskered old man telephoned Secretary Doak that the statistics given him warranted no such declaration. Thereupon Secretary Doak recalled the newsmen, told them to disregard his earlier statement and then, in front of them, gave Statistician Stewart a tongue-lashing for daring to contradict his chief. It was Secretary Doak who refused...