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...Hoover Foresees Depression...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4--Former President Hoover said today that the current inflation shows signs of a depression "agony" like that which best his own administration...
...appeal for governmental conference, Hoover repeated Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey's recent forecast that big federal budgets, if long continued, will produce "a depression that will curl your hair...
Sinclair Weeks, 63. Secretary of Commerce, has never completely overcome his conservative New England business views. (A portrait of Herbert Hoover occupies the honor spot in his office.) But in four years he has marched much closer to Eisenhower progressivism, especially in the sphere of international trade. He has mellowed towards lower tariffs, fought for U.S. membership in the antiprotectionist Organization for Trade Cooperation. To Weeks goes major credit for fostering U.S. participation in foreign-trade fairs that have combated Communist propaganda and helped raise U.S. exports. He has made such long-needed improvements as a Patent Office speedup, broader...
...alone might degenerate into bitter partisan battle. To break the impasse, Johnson is pushing for a compromise commission of his own, one-third of whose members would be named by President Eisenhower, with the other two-thirds divided between the House and Senate, somewhat along the lines of the Hoover Commission on Organ ization of the Executive Branch of the Government...