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...Drift. But during the three Hoover years a Wet drift, slow & steady, has set in. The Wet East's dissatisfaction with Prohibition was manifest in the 1930 Congressional elections. This year the Wet vote in the House reached an all-time Prohibition peak of 187. The G. O. P. in New Jersey, Illinois and Vermont last month plumped for resubmission or repeal. A Literary Digest poll showed preponderant wet sentiment in every State except Kansas and North Carolina. And last week John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who with his father has given $350,000 to the Anti-Saloon League, wrote...
...Bureau of Census last week observed that the mortality rate has declined in 85 large cities below the rate of last year-from 135 per 10,000 to 124 per 10,000. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service, when he noted this downward drift in the statistics last year, indicated to President Hoover that it was due to frugality and temperance in Depression...
...Hoover has been President three years and apparently the manner in which the American Government operates is still a mystery to him. . . . Mr. Hoover's record on the Budget is one of postponement and temporizing. ... He let matters drift as long as the letter of the law permitted him to. ... Why does he not suggest the necessary changes? Instead of making them on his own authority and responsibility he is proposing at the beginning of the tenth month of the [fiscal] year to set up a committee. The vice of this procedure lies in. its timidity and evasiveness...
Hundreds of swans are swept over Niagara every year. At Niagara, about 10% are killed, 30% injured. In 1924 and 1927, several thousand went over. The dead and injured usually drift to the Canadian side of the rapids. The dead are sent to charity. The injured go to the Buffalo Zoo or to Jack Miner's bird sanctuary at Kingsville, Ont. (TIME. Jan. 26, 1931 et ante...
Winthrop House life has been made interesting in other ways for the members. When the political situation been thoroughly digested by a Club ably guided by the best government staff in the Houses, the undergraduate can drift in on an Economic or Science discussion sponsored by students interested in such matters. Throughout the year there have been informal musical recitals in the Common Room which have been well attended and appreciated. Unlike other Houses, Winthrop has been represented in every sport...