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...arbitrator President Hoover summoned House and Senate leaders to breakfast, listened to them wrangle over the question of procedure. His desire was twofold: 1) to beat the debenture; 2) to hasten the bill to passage. To gain these ends he sided with the Senate that the House should lead in voting on the conference report. The House leaders bowed to his will, returned to the Capitol to plan for their body to pass this week on the points at issue. President Hoover was quite aware that if the House, as he confidently expected it would, again rejected the debenture plan...
Senator Charles Samuel Deneen of Illinois, just defeated for renomination by Representative Ruth Hanna McCormick, telephoned Senate friends from Chicago to hasten the Campaign Fund Investigation. Deneen workers broadly insinuated that Mrs. McCormick's campaign expenditures had been excessive...
...time the poor president has been hoping against hope that he might get at least an hour this morning to tackle the tremendous job of assembling the annual budget. But now he must hasten away to the monthly luncheon of the Chamber of Commerce and must, make up his speech as he drives over, because last night he was entertaining a distinguished visiting lecturer who did not have sense enough to turn in until...
...appointment of two Harvard men to a commission which will hasten to San Francisco to investigate the Coffee-Humber method of treating cancer by adrenal extract was announced on Saturday. R. B. Greenough '92, assistant professor of Surgery in the Medical School, and C. C. Little '10, will collaborate with the San Francisco doctors in their experiments with cancer sufferers...
...million undergraduates in colleges and universities in the United States; it is equally well aware that these students will be leaders of national affairs in a few years. The editors hope that the sentiments of these million people can be unified, and that the effect will be to hasten the change which they feel confident must come eventually...