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Bold indeed would a Cabinet member be to go on a summer holiday without his President's consent. Because President Hoover has continued to work through Washington's great heat, his Cabinet has remained dutifully by his side. In tropical garb-linen suits, white flannels, mohairs, panama hats, white shoes-they have trooped in and out of the White House to the semiweekly Cabinet meetings where they silently envied the President his cool quarters. When President Hoover fortnight ago publicly announced his intention to take his vacation this month in the Rocky Mountains, his official aides accepted that...
...Santa Barbara (Calif.) hotel a maid threw a bundle of Mrs. John McGill's dirty linen down a laundry chute to the basement four stories below. The bundle contained Mrs. McGill's infant, eight months old, who was unharmed...
Holy relics displayed by three canons during the mass were: a piece of the True Cross, a strip of the linen with which St. Veronica wiped the brow of the Saviour, a fragment of the spear which pierced His side...
...desperado of the old school is "Scarface Al," plundering or murdering for the savage joy of crime. He is, in his own phrase, "a business man" who wears clean linen, rides in a Lincoln car, leaves acts of violence to his hirelings. He has an eleven-year-old son noted for his gentlemanly manners...
...Public opinion guides our leaders in matters ranging from international disarmament to the wearing of pajamas in city streets. It was by public discussion that night-work for women was banned, that the 12-hour day was abolished, and that child labor was barred. It was by exposing dirty linen that public opinion arose and forced, the dictatorial coal companies of Pennsylvania to lighten their tyrannical oppression over the coal miners, and caused labor unions to be recognized everywhere. Public discussion has been the moving cause of nearly every great reform and should be used here to help the University...