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With all the first-hand advice he has recently received from within and without the Administration, President Roosevelt has yet to decide what to do about Recession. Last week, however, he decided what not to do about it. And what he decided was not far different from what Herbert Hoover decided eight years ago when another Depression was getting under way: he made a statement against reducing wages...
...consistent and hot-headed an advocate of Philippine independence as a minor Filipino politician named Narciso Lapus. Because he disapproved of the appointment of Nicholas Roosevelt as vice-Governor of the Philippines in 1930, he challenged him to a duel, whereupon startled Herbert Hoover changed signals, appointed Mr. Roosevelt Minister to Hungary. Lately Narciso Lapus has been disturbed by the coolness which Philippine President Manuel Quezon and Quintin Paredes, Philippine Resident Commissioner in Washington, have displayed toward a House resolution-introduced by Representative Thomas O'Malley of Milwaukee-"to provide for the immediate and complete independence of the Philippine...
...Wesleyan College and Yale University, studied law at the University of Virginia, Columbia University, the Sorbonne in Paris. His education was polished off with four years in the Kentucky Legislature and a War-time first lieutenancy in the Army. At the behest not of Franklin Roosevelt but of Herbert Hoover he left his comfortable law practice in Maysville to go to Washington in 1929 as attorney for the Federal Farm Board...
Trend. Only comfort the President could give Congress was that the trend of deficits had turned downward from the 1934 peak. But 1939 will bring the Government's ninth consecutive deficit-three of them Herbert Hoover's, six Franklin Roosevelt's. The deficits for fiscal years in millions of dollars...
Died. George Edward Akerson, 48, bulky, breezy onetime pressagent and secretary to Herbert Hoover who quit his White House post in 1931 to take a $30,000-per-year vice-presidency in Paramount Publix Corp.; two hours after receipt of a holiday telegram from the ex-President; of heart disease; in Manhattan...