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...chairman of the Republican National Committee, fuss-budgety little Senator Simeon Davison Fess of Ohio went through last year's Congressional campaign assuring voters that the Depression was worldwide, that President Hoover was not to blame. Many a voter did not believe him, helped to reduce to paper-thinness the Republican majority in Congress. Since then Mr. Fess has had little to say about economic conditions...
...President Herbert Hoover last week went a committee which included President Rees Edgar Tulloss of Wittenberg College (Springfield. Ohio), President George Leslie Omwake of Ursinus College (Collegeville, Pa.), Dr. Norman Jay Gould Wickey, executive secretary of the Board of Education of the United Lutheran Church, and Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, onetime (1907-17) president of Antioch College (Yellow Springs, Ohio). President Hoover agreed to serve as a member of the national sponsoring committee of the Movement, to make a speech for it over the radio in November...
...Conference followed White House conference again last week on unemployment. Senator Fess predicted that President Hoover would have a Relief Plan ready before Congress meets in December. Jouett Shouse, official mouthpiece of the Democratic Party, publicly demanded "more positive action and less theoretical investigation...
Keynoted Senator Simeon Davison Fess...
...Manhattan Lowell Fess, 35, son of bone-dry U. S. Senator Simeon Davison Fess, chairman of the Republican National Committee, appeared in magistrate's court, shielding his face with a straw hat, having passed the early morning hours in a lockup. He heard himself charged with disorderly conduct, heard that he "while intoxicated did use abusive and profane language and attempted to take the officer's baton." He had, moreover, shouted to the desk sergeant in the police station: "I'm going to burn you all up for this! Wait till you hear from the Senator from...