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...high, with a carillon of 25 bells and a relief sculpture of the Senator (see cut). The cost (about $1,000,000) would be financed by public donations, and 63 Senators from both parties joined in sponsoring the enabling bill. Wrote the foundation's chairman, ex-President Herbert Hoover: the Taft monument would commemorate "the simplicity and greatness...
BUDGET-BUREAU reorganization can save the U.S. $4 billion annually, says the Hoover Commission, which says that under current procedures "there is no effective control over expenditures either by the Congress or by the executive branch." The commission recommends that the Budget Bureau apply the accounting and financial methods of U.S. business to its job, wants it to pay more attention to budgeting yearly Government expenditures on a strict cost basis, and less to preparing mere estimates of proposed expenditures...
Peck, presiding justice of the Appellate Division, Supreme Court of New York, will speak on "Crisis in the Courts." He is a member of the Hoover Commission's task force on Legal Services and Procedures. Besides these duties, Peck is on the recently established Judicial Conference of New York State...
Though Republican Herbert Hoover finally carried the University, all three Presidential candidates in 1928, including Socialist Norman Thomas, were represented among undergraduate organizations--and sometimes violently. The Smith Club petitioned to let the world know "the vital meaning of the world America"; the Republicans announced that Hoover was "well-informed"; and Thomas's Socialists (who accounted for 3.7 per cent of the final College vote) merely pleaded for a "just industrial system...
Before the national election Candidate Thomas visited the College to criticize the Republican and Democratic parties as the "double-headed party of big business." Over 500 Smith and Hoover undergraduate supporters tangled in a parade on election eve although no one was arrested...