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...within the executive offices where sat President Hoover busily engaged in trying to stabilize Big Business (see p. 35). A major experiment on the mass-mind of the country was in progress as President Hoover sought to transform public psychology from a state of economic apprehension and uncertainty to one of faith and reassurance. To Industry he would give a new momentum to carry it over the aftermath of the stockmarket crash...
...Snow covered the rear grounds of the White House one morning last week. Out through the falling flakes ran President Hoover. Behind him trotted Secretaries Wilbur and Hyde, Solicitor-General Hughes, Farm Board Chairman Legge, six others. When they came to their level, shrub-guarded playground behind the White House, they briskly began passing their 8-lb. medicine ball back and forth. They kept it up for a half-hour, then walked back to the White House to have their morning coffee indoors instead of out for the first time this year. Thus came Winter to Washington...
...last journey to Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Social engagements at the White House (including the Cabinet dinner and the Diplomatic reception) were cancelled for 30 days. The President ordered all flags half-staffed, broke an ancient tradition by having the White House flag lowered halfway to mourn the death of one other than a U. S. President...
...tariff information, $226,000 for "mileage." The Senate's vote to adjourn, after its refusal to do so last fortnight, came suddenly, unexpectedly. The band of two dozen "Young Turks" (junior Republicans) was beaten in its effort to hold the Senate on the tariff job when all but one Democrat joined with the Old Guard to vote adjournment 49 to 33. With the end of the session fixed, the Senate dawdled over the tariff, finally turned aside to flay its critics. Statistician Roger Babson who had declared that Congress had fiddled like Nero while the stock-market broke...
After 37 years and one month of service in the Senate, longest in U. S. history, Death came last week to Francis Emroy Warren of Wyoming. Past 85, he resisted but briefly the incursion of bronchial pneu- monia. His son-in-law, General John Joseph Pershing, was at his bedside. He was the Senate's oldest member, its last Civil War veteran. Massachusetts-born, he went west after the Civil War, helped found the city of Cheyenne (1873). He was Wyoming's first Governor (1890). As chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee for twelve years, he helped supervise...