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Last year when the Depression was young and newsy, Cabinet members heartily took their cue from President Hoover in predicting, almost to the day, when it would end. The failure of these forecasts eventually reduced the White House to glum silence, muffled the Cabinet. Last week, however, Secretary of Commerce Robert Patterson Lament uttered one more Administration prophecy. Prophet Lament was very cautious, very vague. Said he: "The apparent retardation in the rate of downward movement in several basic indexes of business, supports the belief that the elements of recession have now spent most of their force. . . . While...
...glum-looking men, formally described as "bloodthirsty beasts" by the Soviet court which condemned them, were placed before a Moscow firing squad last week, shot...
...Glum detectives scoured shops and restaurants, poked suspiciously in closets and cupboards, discovered many an old sock clinking with kopecks. Hardly ever were the hoardings large. An old woman peddler of Kiev who had amassed 800 rubles ($411) vas arrested, others were severely scolded, released. In Moscow, however, secret police arrested nine, including one Bogdanov. speculator; one Simonov, cashier; two private traders by the name of Frolov and Mashkov. Each of these amateur numismatists had assembled nearly $2.500 in coins...
...Ritz Carlton Hotel, presented a White House ultimatum, sped back to Washington to report to the President. Next day Mr. Huston cautiously entered Washington, slipped into the White House after dark. Mr. Burke had a statement ready for Mr. Huston to issue as his own. Looking very glum, Mr. Huston let Mr. Burke read it in his behalf...
Such words puzzled the Legionnaires, turned them stone glum. But they broke into understanding grins as the President continued...