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Last week long memories in Washington turned back to one chill morning in January, two years ago. That morning at Jersey City Franklin Roosevelt boarded a train to Washington to confer over War debts, a matter which the President-Hoover-thought of some importance. After he had eaten luncheon in his private car, Mr. Roosevelt's advisers gathered around the table. Of the five who were there to counsel him on the responsibilities he was to assume, several were quite obscure. There was a balloon-jowled professor, Raymond Moley, and a handsome but obscure young doctor (Ph. D.), Rexford...
Although Dr. Tugwell had come too late to save his friends, he was not too late to win renewed expressions of esteem from the Administration. He himself was named to a place on the new ''operating council" of AAA. A liberal friend of his, Dr. Calvin B. Hoover, was appointed Consumers' counsel to AAA-with the understanding that the job would henceforth be different from what it was under Frederick Howe. Administration eyes were cast around to find innocuous jobs to appease Mr. Frank & friends. Yet Dr. Tugwell's nose was out of joint. He turned...
Early Sunday morning a buoyant, almost jovial, man stepped off the 20th Century Limited in New York's Grand Central Terminal, consented to be photographed, refused to be interviewed, hurried through the almost deserted lobby. A handful of commuters recognized Herbert Hoover, clapped, cheered. On his first visit East since he left the White House, Citizen Hoover came to attend his first meeting as a director of New York Life Insurance...
Abortions. A potent Sanger argument for unrestricted use of contraceptives is that women who do not want babies resort to secret abortions. She estimates that 4,000,000 U. S. women have themselves | aborted each year. Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig of St. Louis, President Hoover's special investigator of the subject, puts the number at 700,000.* Probably 15,000 U. S. women die each year on account of faulty abortions...
...College in Lexington, Va., where he had an offer of $1,500 a year, plus the use of house and garden, plus one-fifth of the revenues to be derived from the tuition fees of $75 per annum for each student. Lee might have anticipated Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover by entering the insurance business, but he refused a $10,000-a-year job as supervisor of agencies of an insurance company. He knew business was not his field, and it was not in his nature to fake...