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Next precedent broken occurred when, after receiving the Congressional delegation including Speaker and Mrs. Rainey (blue satin), Representative and Mrs. Sol Bloom (violet blue crushed velvet) et al., the President retired upstairs. Mrs. Roosevelt, unlike other First Ladies, remained behind to watch the dancing. Instead of giving the guests ice water for refreshments, the Roosevelts had fruit punch and cake served in the State Dining Room...
Many members of Congress share the view of Speaker Rainey, who says that the price of gold will be forced up to $41 and ounce and then stabilization will come. For the last several days the price of gold was unchanged, but in the last 24 hours the Treasury has advanced it again. Before stabilization is decided upon, the administration is anxious to have the dollar depreciated as close to 50 cents as possible when measured in terms of gold, but there are many experts here who think that stabilization itself will produce a rebound from a 50-cent level...
Mortgage Front. Another farm grievance against Washington was on mortgage relief. Since March i the Farm Credit Administration had advanced $342,000,000 to Federal land banks, regional credit corporations, farm cooperatives. Yet last week Speaker Rainey roundly flayed F. C. A. for its slow progress on refinancing farm mortgages, charged it with still following "Republican policies...
...Returning to Washington, Speaker Rainey flayed the Farm Credit Administration for not doing more to relieve the farm mortgage situation, charged that Republicans were still in charge of its policies. Said he: "Every key man in the old Republican organization has been retained. In the last election the whole farm population revolted and voted for a change but no change has resulted. I am not insisting upon a Democratic set-up but I am protesting against Republican control...
Goucher College (Baltimore. Md.) Secretary Perkins LL.D. Grove City College (Grove City, Pa.) Headmaster Morgan Barnes of the Thacher School (Ojai Valley, Calif.) LL.D. Speaker of the House Henry Thomas Rainey LL.D...