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...White House last week to mobilize private charity to carry the jobless through another winter. In 1930 he set up for this purpose an organization headed by Col. Arthur Woods. Last year Walter Sherman Gifford (American Telephone & Telegraph) was drafted by the White House for relief duty. This year Newton Diehl Baker is chairman of the Welfare & Relief Mobilization Conference composed of 29 organizations like the Y M. C. A., the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts, the Camp Fire Girls, the Association of Community Chests & Councils, the Jewish Welfare Board. Mr. Baker and his colleagues planned to raise no funds...
Last July the National Economy League was created with Admiral Byrd for temporary chairman. On its advisory committee are Calvin Coolidge, Alfred Emanuel Smith, Newton Diehl Baker, Elihu Root, General Pershing. Admiral Sims. Its broad mission is to force reductions in all governmental expenditures. Its immediate objective is to cut veterans' appropriations. Lobbyist Taylor last month spotted N. E. L. as a real foe, urged "thorough and complete organization if we are to be successful in the future...
...Sept. 15 was announced as the date of the next White House conference on Depression relief. President Hoover will address the National Citizens Committee of the Welfare & Relief Mobilization of 1932, chairmanned by Democrat Newton Diehl Baker, organized to raise funds locally for local relief. Last week the White House was heartened by a statement by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor: 11,400,000 jobless for August which, for once, showed no increase over the month before. Though progressive unemployment might be checked, Mr. Green warned that next winter will be one of "unthinkable suffering...
...addition to Mr. Clark, President Hoover now has working for him and re-election the following: Everett Sanders, President Coolidge's No. 1 secretary, as chairman of the Republican National Committee; George Akerson, onetime Hoover secretary, as publicity director at New York headquarters; Walter Newton, onetime Minnesota Representative, as political secretary; Lawrence Richey, one-time detective, as personal secretary.; French Strother, onetime editor, as literary secretary...
...them got a divorce to become his mistress, died before their experiment had completely failed. Now, middleaged, unambitious, disillusioned, he waits to see what will happen with the rest of his life, has no high hopes, except some day to write "an enormous critical study and biography of Isaac Newton...