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Chairman Simeon Davison Fess last week to scent another dark plot. Said he: "Some leading Republicans are beginning to believe there is some concerted effort on foot to use the stockmarket as a method of discrediting the Administration. Every time an Administration official gives out an optimistic statement about business conditions, the market immediately drops...
Even when the slightest bit of improvement is proclaimed, the market always seems to respond with lower quotations." While Democratic Executive Chairman Jouett Shouse was loudly jeering Chairman Fess's latest "discovery," less partisan Wall Street traders explained that one good reason why the stockmarket did not respond to Republican statements of business improvements was because the Administration's predictions, from President Hoover's down to Secretary of Labor Davis', for a turn in the economic tide, had all failed to come true...
...appearance he is taller than his Ohio colleague, short Senator Simeon Davison Fess, or his No. 1 political sponsor, medium-sized Postmaster General Brown. A wide mouth, strong nose, sharp eyes under wrinkly brows, a fine head of wavy dark hair touched with grey combine to give him a certain cinematic handsomeness. In dress he is quiet, neat, careful about his neckties...
...LOWELL FESS New York City...
Dropping four members of his Cabinet, the President boarded his special train, started West. G. O. P. Chairman Simeon Davison Fess was ordered back to Washington lest his presence give the President's trip the appearance of a political junket. Postmaster General Brown, however, was permitted to go along. Outside Altoona the train was run off on a siding at Mule Shoe Bend, high among the mountains. Ties were lashed to the tracks to keep it from rolling; switches were spiked; the President slept seven quiet hours...