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...applauded. A silk-stocking audience in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel broke into a noontime speech 25 times in 35 minutes. He was also cheered, though more perfunctorily, by Republicans in San Francisco and Reno, and greeted heartily by party members in Las Vegas and at Hoover and Shasta dams...
...Cross nurse in World War I, Elmira Bears (rhymes with cheers) put in months at nightmarish service in France. After the Armistice, she stayed on for seven months as chief nurse for Herbert Hoover's relief commission to Belgium. Back in the U.S., she continued her career until 1925, when she married Homer Wickenden, a social-welfare official...
...Senator said. "Hoover suggested the same thing some time ago. He suggested that we ought to start ... a campaign to save food and eat less. ..." Only then did Bob Taft seem to realize that he had been thrown a cue. He began qualifying: "I know there are a lot of people who can only just get enough, but there are many who could take that advice and save a lot of money...
...grim food year" was forecast by Herbert Hoover last night in a speech given in New York. His report stated that the world food situation "has become even more distressing" than in the past years...
Died. Mary Emma Woolley, 84, women's-rights pioneer, longtime fighter for peace through disarmament, longtime (1900-'37) president of Mount Holyoke College; after long illness; in Westport, N.Y. Herbert Hoover rewarded her crusading by making her the only woman delegate to the 1932 Geneva Disarmament Conference. Massive, energetic Miss Woolley strode into the job with confidence ("Women rush in where diplomats fear to tread," said she), came back just as discouraged as the male delegates. When a man succeeded her at Mount Holyoke, shocked Miss Woolley never set foot on the campus again...