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Cruel Hoaxes. Amid the nationwide uproar-President Herbert Hoover asked the fledgling FBI to help, and Commander Evangeline Booth of the Salvation Army, mindful of the "miraculous accomplishments" God had wrought through the army's lost and found department, urged her pious legions to keep an eye out for the missing 2O-month-old child-there were countless cruel hoaxes and honest if hysterical mistakes by people who claimed to have made contact with the kidnaper. One report came from John F. Condon, a retired New York schoolteacher who, aroused by the crime, had written to the Bronx Home...
...King and Queen of Siam were on hand for the first luncheon. President Herbert Hoover spoke from Washington. Even in the chauffeurs' waiting room, champagne flowed. Mr. Bagby's Musical Mornings were scheduled in the ballroom (Kirsten Flagstad, Giovanni Martinelli, et al.). Thus, 30 years ago, the new Waldorf-Astoria opened on Manhattan's Park Avenue, setting a tone of stately, if slightly too chromium-plated, elegance that lasted nearly into the days of Hiltonization. This week, for the first time since the Waldorf debut, a new hotel opened in Manhattan, but the atmosphere was different...
...Herbert Hoover Jr., W6ZH and K6ZH
...President's plan to borrow $7.3 billion directly from the Treasury-a tactic designed to bypass the authority of the penny-pinching House Appropriations Committee. Even respected Republican Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon argued that such "backdoor spending" was an economically sound procedure, used by every President since Herbert Hoover to support some 20 federal agencies. Aid Opponent Passman felt so sure that he did not have enough votes to block the bill in his Appropriations Subcommittee that he called off hearings. Kennedy himself felt confident enough to reject a compromise on the five-year commitment offered by Minnesota...
Died. Julius Klein, 74, economic troubleshooter, a Harvard professor called to the Commerce Department by Presidents Wilson and Hoover, later a freelance consultant who counseled both Peru and Chile to replace their state-controlled economies with free enterprise; of hepatitis; in San Francisco...