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...gloomy General Grant rococo of the State Department emerged the figure of an intense, chivalrous man, Colonel Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State. He descended the long flight of steps, stalked across the street, entered the White House offices where he was closeted with President Herbert Hoover. Three days later a U. S. note went out to call Japan's attention to the Kellogg-Briand Peace pact. A copy of the note went to the other signatories of the Nine-Power Treaty in order to invite them to cooperate in putting pressure on Japan...
Last week a tall, tanned geophysicist and petroleum engineer named Herbert Clark Hoover Jr. addressed the Institute of Radio Engineers in San Francisco. He told them how seismographic or "artificial earthquake" methods of prospecting for oil had improved in recent years. Technique at present is to bore a hole 500 ft. deep, drop a dynamite charge to the bottom. When the charge is exploded, vibrations resembling earthquake waves ripple out in all directions. Some travel straight down, and part of them are reflected back up with different intensities from layers of rock, sandstone, limestone, shale. Geophones on the surface pick...
...secluded whitewashed brick house behind Pasadena, rides and plays a little tennis, but has little time for social doings and no time for country clubs. Most of the time he works. Unlike Jimmy Roosevelt, son of another U. S. President, who lives only 20 miles away, Herbert Hoover Jr., has no interest whatever in politics...
During his four years in the White House the U. S.'s greatest ex-Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, used to announce at regular intervals that business was getting better. Not yet quite so famous are the announcements of another H. H., Secretary of Commerce Harry Hopkins, business-appeaser emeritus. Mr. Hopkins last week issued another H. H. announcement to spread a little recovery cheer, noting an end-of-May "pickup in activity": increases in auto sales and in post-strike coal activity...
Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover...