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...would expect full payment Dec. 15 and that the President would recommend another debt commission to Congress. Nothing was said about the certain rejection by Congress of this recommendation. Secretary Stimson's language to Britain made it plain that the Hoover Administration considered her plight graver than France's or Belgium's, that revision by capacity-to-pay would be likeliest in her case...
...Graver C. Neff, chief operating executive of Wisconsin Power & Light Co., was made president of Middle West Utilities Co., succeeding Martin John Insull...
...pointed to the vanishing poorhouse, promised, with God's help, to "banish poverty from this nation." His listeners went home with the feeling that only by his election could the country attain its full economic destiny. Mr. Hoover felt the same way. Last week it was a leaner, graver man of 58 who accepted his second nomination a few blocks from the White House. Almost all his hair was grey now. In his shoulders was a perceptible droop of fatigue. Plain were the marks of three of the worst years any peacetime President has had to endure. Lawn Party...
...often selling their product below the margin of a safe return on their investment. The real pain of the trouble is transmitted to the miners, who strike, riot, threaten, starve in the throes of wretched living conditions and inadequate wages. Since 1919 this has been the condition, steadily growing graver, in an industry which is capitalized at two and one-half billion dollars, whose product was valued at 1.3 billions in 1929 and whose employes during the same year numbered...
...regard the bill as unwise from the standpoint of the veterans themselves and unwise from the standpoint of the welfare of all the people. . . . But of much graver importance is the whole tendency to open up the Federal Treasury to a thousand purposes. . . . Each of them breaks the barriers of self-reliance and self-support in our people...