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Practical politicians are still chewing the cud of the Lincoln Day speeches. They were not uninspiring rhetorical hearkenings-back to the glories of a dead past. Dr. Glenn Frank and Senator Van-denburg gave no ordinary speeches on this occasion. But above all former President Hoover's fighting speech was anything but meaningless oratory...
Some will assert that Mr. Hoover has merely employed a new "ghost" writer. Such inquiry is at once bootless and pointless. The energy of the "rejuvenated Hoover" sallying forth with freshly sharpened lance is apparent. His ideas seem partially refurbished, and his verbal thrusts are aimed with a delicacy and deadliness that must excite the envy of English pig-sticking enthusiasts. His delivery has been revolutionized, but the logic behind it is as direct as heretofore...
...Hoover's appearance in San Jose superior court challenges the attention of the whole nation, and particularly those who look after other people's money. If the guardians of Stanford's funds are worried by the bogey of inflation, Harvard's trustees should sit up and take notice. For all save the government's hirelings will now admit that serious inflation looms larger than at any time since the administration took the helm...
...favored former Governor Lowdon's plan of subsidies to farmers administered by state agricultural and land grant colleges. He declared that this was the only way to administer agricultural policies without making the farmer subject to bureaucratic centralization at Washington. This plan was originally put forward by Herbert Hoover, speaking at Lincoln, Nebrasks, on January 16 of this year...
...first real check which the merit system has suffered since its introduction in 1883. With the exception of the second Roosevelt every President, even Wilson, working under the pressure of war-time demands on administration, has extended the scope of the merit system, so that by the end of Hoover's administration 80% of the government employees were included. In appalling contrast, at the close of the fiscal year 1935 the percentage of competitive places had dropped to 57, approximately the ratio which prevailed...