Word: oxley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, like other Presidents before him, he wrote and released a personal let ter to an old friend. It was an exposition of his Presidential philosophy, a broad de fense of his policies, his credo of politics. The friend was Dr. William Oxley Thompson, 75, for a quarter of a century president of Ohio State University, now its President Emeritus. Dr. Thompson, once Moderator of the Presbyterian Church, had sent President Hoover a belated New Year's message in which he deplored, in mellow, age-ripened words, the present "mob-mindedness" of public life, the self-interest of those...