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Shortly after 9 o'clock one evening last week President Hoover's private telephone bell rang in the White House. It was his political secretary, Walter Hughes Newton, calling from the Capitol. Mr. Newton said that the second session of the 71st Congress would adjourn in one hour or less. The President, in dinner jacket, summoned Secretary of War Hurley and together they motored to the Capitol. Such trips to "the Hill" are pure courtesy on the President's part. There is no constitutional reason for him to sign bills before adjournment...
...entourage for his friend Mr. MacDonald sent along on the Rodney two M.P.'s and two Members of the House of Lords. One of the latter was peppery Baron Newton who, in a recent furious attack upon the Labor Government for recognizing Russia, called Bolsheviks "un attractive animals which, like boa constrictors and alligators, accept food, only to show their ingratitude by swallowing their keepers" (TIME, March...
...hoped that Baron Newton, out of gratitude for the fun of riding to Ice land and back on the Rodney, will not attack the Prime Minister's policies quite so furiously in future...
Died. Leroy A. Manchester, chief counsel (with Newton Diehl Baker) for Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. in the projected Youngstown-Bethlehem steel merger ; despondent over litigation against the merger (TIME, March 24 et seq.) and the strain of negotiations; by his own hand; at Youngstown, Ohio. Court was declared adjourned until July 8 "for good and sufficient reasons." Declared David G. Jenkins, trial judge: "A valuable piece in the chess game [has been] removed from the board. So far as the law suit is concerned and cold as it may seem to say it, the contest must...
...civic luncheon was scheduled to begin the opening ceremonies. Newton D. Baker, who is personal counsel to the Van Sweringens, will preside. Speakers: Mayor John D. Marshall of Cleveland, President Patrick E. ("Pull Eighty Cars'") Crowley of New York Central, President W. L. Ross of Nickel Plate. The Brothers Van Sweringen will be present: the Brothers Taplin, in all probability, will not. The Taplins, inveterate Van Sweringen-baiters, as minority stockholders in the Wheeling, tried to hold up the building of the terminal, carried their case from court to court up to the U. S. Supreme Court, where they lost...