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President Roosevelt adopted the three Hoover categories of news, and did not promise to answer all questions. But he limited his audience strictly to the regular White House corps; and he permitted quotation only of his exact words, as recorded by the stenographers. The complete transcript of every press conference will be kept, said the President, because he does not want to revive the "Ananias Club." as Theodore Roosevelt called White House visitors whom he had to turnquote...
...Washington in 1922 after having held similar positions in the East Indies and Japan for six years. In May 1927 he felt obliged to state that the Vatican had no interest in Alfred E. Smith's candidacy for President. In 1929, the Apostolic Delegate called on President Hoover. Archbishop Fumasoni-Biondi, 60, is tall, pink and scholarly. He lived quietly in Washington, dined out occasionally with oldish men at the more sedate embassies, kept a "blind" telephone number which even Catholic organizations in Washington did not know. He is likely to be appointed prefect of the Holy Congregation...
Died. Dan P. Hoover, 47, vice president of Hoover Co. (vacuum cleaners), son of the founder; by jumping from a fifth floor window at Cleveland Clinic while under observation for a stomach disorder...
Died. Edgar French Strother, 49, intermittently literary coach of onetime President Hoover and associate editor of the late World's Work (merged last year with Review of Reviews), Democrat; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...suite on the 33rd floor of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for a constitutional up Fifth Avenue to Central Park and back with a companion. A few people nodded to him. He smiled out of his turned-up collar. On Fifth Avenue someone leaned over a bus rail, shouted: "Howdy, Hoover! How're you doing...