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...palmy summer of 1929 Herbert Hoover's special session of Congress passed an act ordering a census of agriculture every ten years. By that law an agricultural census would be held on Jan. 1, 1935. The Roosevelt Administration recently decided to spend, in addition to $2,700,000 already voted, $7,540,000 to take a simultaneous census of the unemployed. Secretaries Roper, Wallace, Ickes and Madam Secretary Perkins all urged the change. So did Census Director Austin, General Johnson, Relief Administrator Hopkins. They had excellent reasons...
...William McKinley. also in office, accepted by telegram. William Howard Taft was a Federal judge when he was honored in 1893. President Theodore Roosevelt and Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton got their degrees at the same commencement, in 1901. Last to be kudized was U. S. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover...
...Comp. Philology 1b Sever 30 Economics A Dr. Abbott, Sec. E. F Memorial Hall Dr. Anderson, Sec. J. L Memorial Hall Mr. Crane, Sec. A. D. Memorial Hall Mr. Daly, Sec. T Memorial Hall Mr. Fox, Sec. B Memorial Hall Professor Frickey, Sec. M. N. Memorial Hall Dr. Hoover, Sec. H Memorial Hall Dr. Hunt, Sec. I, K Memorial Hall Mr. Lamb, Sec. R New Lect. Hall Mr. Leighton, Sec. C New Lect. Hall Mr. Ross, Sec. G New Lect. Hall Mr. Smith, Sec. Q New Lect. Hall Mr. Sweezy, Sec. S New Lect. Hall Mr. Walsh...
...directing publicity against the big meat packers in behalf of the Southern Wholesale Grocers' Association, he returned to Washington to establish the Department of Agriculture's Cost of Marketing division, which made extensive studies on the distribution of milk and potatoes. In 1920 he headed the Florida Hoover-for-President Club, ruefully admits that in 1932 he voted for Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...University (New York) Professor Emeritus Ernest William Brown of Yale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC. D. President James Bryant Conant of Harvard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . SC.D. Chancellor Harry Woodburn Chase of New York University . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. President Harold Willis Dods of Princeton . . . . . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. Surrogate James Aloysius Foley of New York Country . . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Economist Calvin Bryce Hoover of Duke University . . . . . . . . . Litt. D. British Economist John Maynard Keynes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rev. Russell Henry Stafford of Boston's Old South Church . . . . . . . . . . S.T.D Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa) U.S. Commissioner-elect of Education John Ward Studebaker. . . . . . . . . . LL.D. Board Chairman Walter J. Cummings of the Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. . . . . . . . . . . LL.D...