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Since the Hoover Moratorium ended in 1932, the U. S. State Department has been sending semiannual duns to those governments which have defaulted on debts totaling $11,000,000,000. Last week a defaulter answered. Hungary announced that on Dec. 15 it would make a payment of $9,828.16, first by a defaulting nation* since Great Britain ceased its "token" payments in 1933. Hungary's payment, also a token, amounted to 22.8? per dollar on the semiannual payment...
Next day 20 miles off the China coast the U. S. liner President Hoover, with Dollar signs as big as billboards on her funnels, plowed towards Shanghai with 263 U. S. refugees aboard. Out of the sky three small bombs came crashing down on the ship, shell-shocking three passengers, wounding six of the crew, killing one, damaging hull and deck. Shanghai's Mayor 0. K. Yui promptly admitted Chinese responsibility, promised fullest redress: four bombers had mistaken the liner for a Japanese troopship. Washington immediately cabled Ambassador Johnson to make a vehement protest...
Having soberly pondered ever since election, the only living ex-President last week offered in the Atlantic Monthly some words of political wisdom. Excerpts fron Herbert Hoover on ''The Crisis and the Political Parties...
...fishing tour of the West Coast, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Spokane, Wash. He sneered: "Why, you can get more fish within 75 miles of the Waldorf-Astoria* than you can out here...
...White House is a completely equipped dentist's office, installed by order of President Hoover. All the Roosevelt family have their teeth cared for there by Dr. Ralph Whatley Malone of the Xaval Dental School...