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When Mr. Hoover stood on the Convention platform to make his farewell address, the demonstration was genuine and joyous. He beamed and waved. After 15 minutes of yelling, shrieking, hooting, he was allowed to begin. With left hand in pocket and chubby right fist bouncing on the rostrum in time with his denunciation, he culminated his six-month attack on the New Deal with a masterly peroration. Excerpts...
Died. John Hays Hammond Sr., 81, famed mining engineer, President Taft's most trusted confidant and adviser; of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass. Hired by Cecil Rhodes in 1893 at his own terms, he successfully introduced deep-level mining in the Rand Gold Field, made money hand over fist. For his part in the Jameson raid into the Transvaal, he was sentenced to death, finally went free for a $125,000 fine...
...Harding as she caught a man peeking into her 7-year-old daughter Jane's stateroom when the S. S. Duchess of Atholl called at Belfast. No sooner had the ship reached Great Britain than a flock of British newshawks descended on Miss Harding, almost got into fist fights with chivalrous passengers who went to her aid, forced her into hysterics long before she reached Liverpool. There she sent Jane ashore separately in disguise, narrowly foiled a fake kidnapping conceived by a British tabloid. Wailed Cinemactress Harding at Belfast: "I'll never permit Jane...
...defunct First National Bank of Gulfport had been reduced. The Judge admitted that he had done so as a routine function, pointed out that the compromises had been first approved by the Comptroller of the Currency. Insolvent Senator. Pat Harrison bravely faced the Senate committee, thumped his fist on the table and, looking Senator Bilbo in the eye, declared: ''This was not brought in here to hurt Judge Holmes. It was brought up in an effort to hurt me. And I can take care of that before the people of Mississippi. I thought, back in 1925, like...
...Charles Jaynes Jr. eats spinach, practices on his violin, cannot read. In Shreveport, La. last Sunday night, Preacher Jaynes wiped his small moppet's nose, led him out before a good-sized congregation. Not the father but the son began beating the pulpit with a childish fist, pointing a small finger to heaven and piping in a clear treble : "Man has a two-fold nature. He is both a material and a spiritual being and both natures have been equally affected by the Fall. His body is exposed to disease, his soul corrupted by sin. How blessed, therefore...