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Politics. Last week, the Legion heard speeches by Secretary of War Woodring, Governor Lehman, William Green (see col. 3). Commander Colmery's Dinner for Distinguished Guests was attended by 1,000, including 15 Governors. Herbert Hoover, following Secretary of State Hull as an after-dinner speaker, made a friendly gesture towards old-fashioned Democrats. Said he: "It would be a distinction to anyone, at any time, to follow Secretary of State Mr. Cordell Hull. . . . He holds our confidence and our good wishes...
...Presidents' collection are books owned and signed by Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hoover and Coolidge, as well as others. Lincoln's Shakspere volumes, and a signed letter from the 16th President are shown. The only book from the library of Andrew Johnson is the text of his impeachment trial proceedings, together with a ticket of admission to the trial. Herbert Hoover's own copy of "American Individualism" of which he was the author is likewise displayed. The books are, for the most part, the gift of Henry S. Howe...
Sole worthy political foes of the Hepburn Liberals in this election are the Ontario Conservatives. These are led by stolidly handsome and inarticulate The Honorable William Earl Rowe, M. P., chosen disciple of the nearest approach to Herbert Hoover ever produced in Canada, namely pompous Richard Bedford Bennett who as Prime Minister disastrously lost the last Dominion election (TIME, Oct. 21, 1935). Mr. Bennett, having picked Mr. Rowe to achieve high office, had King George V make him a Privy Councilor and groomed him carefully, but quite failed to develop a popular Conservative leader in Ontario...
...Most important measure the President vetoed was the Copeland-May Bill for the development of Washington's Washington-Hoover Airport, which the Airline Pilots' Association this summer declared unsafe. In his veto message the President suggested that instead of trying to improve an inadequate field, a new airport be developed at Gravelly Point, "Within ten minutes of the centre of Washington . . . for use in all good weather. . . ." Since low-lying Gravelly Point has many river fogs, he also recommended a second field farther away for use when flying conditions were unfavorable...
Last week's meeting in Philadelphia offered an extraordinary view of this extraordinary church. The only Quaker President of the U. S., Herbert Hoover, never an active churchman, was absent but many another famed Quaker was present. Quartered at two Quaker colleges Haverford and Swarthmore, both in Philadelphia's environs, the Friends met daily in Swarthmore's roomy Field House and its towering limestone chapel. Foreign delegates soon learned that the chapel was given by Philadelphia's rich Quaker Clothier family, while the other-half of the ownership of the city's famed department store...