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Friends no less than enemies can make trouble for a President. Last week President Hoover found Claudius Hart Huston, his Chairman of the Republican National Committee, in a situation which threatened to hurt the G. O. P. It appeared Mr. Huston had been playing the stockmarket with funds collected for lobbying. The President heard Senators demand that he discharge his friend, waited to see what would happen, hoped for the best...
Next July, when he takes office, President Compton will have charge of 487 teachers, 2,868 undergraduates, and the nation's "Brightest" and "Second Brightest" boys?Wilber Brotherton Huston and Charles H. Brunissen, winners in last summer's Edison examinations (TIME...
...convention Eastern campaign. As a reward he was made secretary of the Republican National Committee. Last week he complained of the press of other affairs, resigned. As always in the case of such leave-takings, he, the White House and G. 0. P. Chairman Claudius Hart Huston had to deny rumors of a breach in the party, had to down stories that the President had jettisoned his political friend...
...shows the outlines and land regions of the antarctic continent as they were known last week. It is an extension of the map recently made by the American Geographical Society (John Huston Finley, president, Isaiah Bowman, director), most assiduous recorder of polar explorations...
...your ear, records the rustle of the air's phantom oceans over the prairie land, sounds of rivers, birds, hoofs. Best shots: the steers in the rapids; three cattle-rustlers hanged, with horses for a scaffold; the shooting match between the Virginian (Gary Cooper) and the halfbreed (Walter Huston...