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...recent appointment of a visiting committee for Stillman Infirmary arouses somewhat the same mingled feelings of hope, tolerance, and mild amusement which formerly accompanied the appointment of another Hoover commission. By the addition of this committee to the staff, the University now has a visiting committee for every week in the year, ranging over work which varies from tasting food to testing professors. It is not to be wondered at, then, if this fifty-second visiting committee is welcomed into the official family with a certain blasé reception...
Died. William Nuckles Doak, 50. Hoover Secretary of Labor, onetime railroad yardman; of heart disease; in "Notre Nid," his Virginia home across the Potomac from Washington...
...pledge. But many a silk-stocking Republican, to whom LaGuardia's radicalism is repugnant and who remembers how the gallant major bedeviled Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, would quietly cast his vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican momentum to its original Democratic impetus, McKee's cueball had already clicked off O'Brien's white-ball, was rolling toward LaGuardia's redball. It looked as though a Hooverite kiss would make a Rooseveltian billiard. Wall street was betting 2-to-1 it would...
...California, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Ogden to talk with Utah's former Senator Reed Smoot told reporters: "I have discovered a new method of enjoying life. To those who seek relaxation and to those who want to know how to go about enjoying the best in life. I recommend that they take an automobile out on the highway. Never mind about where you are going. Just go. If you want to turn down this byway, do it. If you want to drive farther and turn down another side road, do that. It's delightful...
Charles F. Adams '88, former Treasurer of Harvard College and Secretary of the Navy in the Hoover Cabinet has been elected president of the Harvard Alumni Association, succeeding James M. Morton...