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...Solicitorship General. But public advancement meant more than money to Mr. Reed, who is the husband of the Registrar General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in his own right a country squire and cattle breeder at home in Maysville, Ky. First called to Washington by President Hoover as counsel to the late Farm Board at $25.000 salary, he previously advanced under Democratic rule to the RFC at $12.500. Not so brilliant as some of the New Deal's younger legalites, his tall bulk appealed to tall, bulky Jesse Jones, and his hard work resulted...
...workmen groomed the Theater for an overflow crowd. At the foot of the slope, swishing academic gowns trailed an odor of mothballs through Faculty Glade. Class banners clustered about the base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided: "I hate academic gowns." At 10 o'clock punctual officials glanced nervously at their watches, glanced again & again before Secretary Perkins, who had overslept at the President's House...
...Hicksville, L. I. which still is a Quaker centre. Though for a time an Orthodox Quaker hastened to cross the street when he saw a Hicksite coming, the sharp distinction between conservative and liberal dulled with time. Only an expert eye can detect the small religious difference between Herbert Hoover and Haverford College, both Orthodox, and onetime Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Swarthmore College, both Hicksite. Even in hidebound Philadelphia, for friendship as well as economy, Hicksite and Orthodox Monthly Meetings have been worshipping together during the past few years. Last week the Yearly Meetings of the two sects...
...crop year beginning Aug. 1. A group of Cabinet officers and Senators hurried into conference with President Roosevelt, emerged to announce that the President was entirely in sympathy with the cotton control program. Bellowed Senator Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina: "I think the same sinister forces that wrecked Hoover's farm program are at work to destroy our present cotton policy." Next day he introduced a resolution which was passed by the Senate asking for an appropriation to "get to the bottom of this break...
...Last week Mr. Mills was ticketed for speeding through Palo Alto, Calif. at 33 m.p.h. to keep an appointment with Herbert Hoover...