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...better part of two days the Hoover Committee continued its secret sessions. No witnesses were called, no testimony was taken. Finally a report? "a damned good one," Admiral Rodman called it???was prepared and on the morning of the third day the committee sent it to the White House. The President read the 10,000-word document with satisfaction for, as all the world expected, it found that he was right and Mr. Gardiner wrong...
...first importance from Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State. How did it get there? Not through the mail. It was not brought by the Papal Ambassador, for he had not called. Foreign Minister Dino Grandi, no Sherlock Holmes, shrugged: "An unseen messenger seems to have brought it???most unusual...
...says John Drinkwater, "a number of anxious critics asked, Why? . . . Wasn't that a very odd thing for the biographer of Lincoln, Lee, Byron, and the rest, to do?'' If you postpone asking this question yourself until after reading this Horatio-Algeresque biography, you may still feel like asking it???unless you think the answer is obvious. From Mr. Laemmle's point of view, of course, there was nothing "odd" about it. People hire artists to paint their portraits, don't they...
...Companies, Inc. Pooling their resources they submitted a bid to the Interior Department. Last week in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur awarded the Hoover Dam contract to Six Companies as low bidder. Their price: $48,890,995.50. The U. S. is to supply concrete?20.000 freight cars of it???steel, other materials and machinery which will run the final bill for the dam and power plants up to $165,000,000. Under $5,000,000 bond, Six Companies must finish the job in 1938 or pay a penalty of $3,000 for every day they exceed...
...ultimate justification of his own policies and methods. What gives him courage and turns his face hopefully toward the future is the certain knowledge that better economic times will bring him better political times. Well within the realm of possibility ?in fact most Republicans count on it??? is a mighty upturn toward prosperity which will blot out the President's misfortunes and missteps of 1930-31 and restore him, sobered from his bout with adversity, to the peaks of popularity in time for the 1932 election...