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...Prentiss Costigan and the Insurgent-Republican heart of Robert Marion La Follette bled as one witness after another told them how the nation's private charity organizations had all but broken down under the load of local relief. The Costigan-La Follette remedy was a $375.000.000 gift from the Govern-ment through the States to jobless citizens...
Ever since Britain has had a Cabinet to govern it, a Cabinet Minister who could not bring himself to agree with his fellows was expected to resign. This unbroken precedent was broken last week...
...Governor Roosevelt's proximity to that nomination raises pregnant questions: What manner of man is he and of what stuff is he made? Is he bold and courageous and independent or is he just an honest politician whom Fate has tossed to the top? Has he the capacity to govern? Does his mind generate large ideas of political reformation or does he just utter lofty platitudes...
...haven't the ghost of an idea what it means," snorted Liberal Lloyd George. "I should have thought it was the business of those brought in to govern, to govern...
...President called-in correspondents, spoke volubly about his proposal to reorganize and consolidate certain Govern-ment departments and bureaus as a means of reducing Federal expenditure. Only in hard times, the President was aware, could such a patronage-destroying plan get Congressional consideration. Under the Hoover plan, outstanding mergers would be: 1) consolidation of all governmental construction under one director; 2) transfer of all merchant marine functions to the Department of Commerce; 3) grouping of all health and education services together. ¶ To the funeral of Richard Oulahan, New York Times correspondent and dean of Washington correspondents...