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Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government and secretary of the Graduate School of Public Administration, was yesterday appointed assistant director of the state's "baby Hoover Commission." He will be paid on on a per diem basis but not more than $4500 a year...
Republican Barrage. The open opposition to the Administration's decision came largely from Republicans. Ex-President Herbert Hoover, who had presided over a stern nonrecognition doctrine when Japan seized Manchuria in 1931, declared that the U.S. should certainly support the Chinese Nationalists and, if necessary, provide naval protection for Formosa. He was seconded on naval support by Ohio's Senator Taft, who last September had voted against the blanket Military Assistance Program for Europe and parts of Asia...
They are indulging in one of the greatest wastes of public funds in the history of our country. The Hoover commission and some other responsible people have pointed out that Pick and Sloan are (1) planning their projects for twice as much water as exists in the entire river, (2) doing nothing about the thousands of acres of farmland which wash down the Missouri each year, (3) wasting millions of dollars by hiring out their projects to contractors instead of building things themselves, and (4) allocating millions to the development of navigation when commerce on the river is negligible...
...Ellis Arnall, Harold Stassen, Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton. James Farley was a panel member on Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom. The biggest mail response was won by a discussion of Izaak Walton's Compleat Angler, but that was probably more a tribute to Panel Member Herbert Hoover than to Walton's book. Once, when Invitation was rated by Hooper, Racine's Phedre, for some unexplained reason, scored highest. Lowest was Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer...
...York Herald Tribune's Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg. One of the Bachrachs' most difficult subjects, they said, was Thomas E. Dewey. The toughest of all was the late Rorello La Guardia, who "would never sit still." They recalled their favorite "trick"-on overworked President Herbert Hoover at the start of the 1932 presidential campaign. He was too tired to sit erect when he came in for the sitting: "We stacked seven books in a chair and asked Mr. Hoover to sit on the books. He had to sit erect and alert, to keep from falling...