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...Sequoia got down the river a strong wind was blowing, no fish biting. ¶ Theodore Roosevelt Jr. who called his fifth cousin Franklin D. Roosevelt a "maverick" in the 1920 campaign, was a White House luncheon guest last week. Back from the Philippines where he had been President Hoover's Governor General, he told President Roosevelt of his travels through 17 countries on his westbound journey home. ¶ President Roosevelt proclaimed Oct 8-14 as Fire Prevention Week. ¶ To the American Bankers Association convening in Chicago the President sent a message exhorting its members to loosen...
Late last week it was rumored that the defense would call Brother Theodore Hoover as a character witness for Lamson...
Fathered by a bushy-haired, oldtime social worker named Charles Frederick Weller and a chubby little Hindu named Kedernath Das Gupta, the World Fellowship has for chairman famed Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell, for honorary presidents Jane Addams and Herbert Hoover (who let his name be used "if anyone thought it would be of any help...
...talkative James Watson Gerard, 66, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, who three years ago issued a famed list of 64 "real rulers of the U. S." He told newshawks: "That list is no longer significant. Things have changed. In that list I included no statesmen, not even former President Hoover, because the men I did include were too busy to hold public office, yet their influence determined who should hold such office. I could revise the list so that it included 59 leading industrialists, bankers, journalists, and so forth, today, but I could not call them the real rulers...
...Boston's famed surgeon. In 1931 when Eugene Meyer was given his "Y in life," Mr. Roberts (now president of S. W. Straus) received a letter from an alumnus of Leland Stanford, saying: "The award represents discrimination and judgment on the part of the givers. . . . Yours faithfully, Herbert Hoover...