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...Quaker village of West Branch, Iowa, there was once a tow-haired boy who hung around the printing shop of the local Times so much and caused so much devilment, usually by distributing handset type into wrong boxes, that occasionally he had to be ejected-Herbert Clark Hoover. So said A. W. Jackson, 50 years a country newspaper man, retiring last week from the staff of the Tipton (Iowa) Advertiser...
...International Paper and New England Power. When he obtained control of the former, combinations began. He kept in the background. Seldom has his name appeared in print except, during the 90's, in the sport news. He used to be an able tennis racqueteer. His background is Quaker, and old New English. His father, Arnold Buffum Chace, is chancellor of Brown University. The Chace spokesman, figurehead and factotum...
Guns and bullets-that was what President Chiang Kai-shek asked of President Herbert Hoover, last week, and he asked British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, too, for good measure. Since Chinese newspapers have told that "the Quaker in the White House" recently allowed 10,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition to be sold to Mexico (TIME, March 18), the request of President Chiang was perhaps not illogical. He, like President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico, is engaged in putting down a revolution, and why should not Washington and London help? In so far as the U. S. State...
Joseph Moore Dixon of Missoula, Mont., to be Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Born of Quaker parents in North Carolina and educated at Quaker colleges, Mr. Dixon, as a lawyer, went west, became U. S. Senator from Montana, later its Governor. He went off Bull Moosing in 1912, remained a Progressive, dabbled in many an insurgent movement. However he was not sufficiently irregular to defeat Democratic Burton Kendall Wheeler for the U. S. Senate last year...
...Liver Oil Meal Cake. Quaker Oats Co. wishes it to come in free...