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...cool quiet of his camp on the Rapidan President Hoover took the directorate of Reconstruction Finance Corp. for a week-end talk about Relief. House Democrats had spurned the Hoover program, were in fact on the verge of passing their own bill for a big public works bond issue. The President and his R. F. C. conferees sat all day. Dusk melted into night but the discussion ran on. A little breeze riffled papers and reports on the conference table...
President Hoover spent his second week-end on the Rapidan mulling over relief legislation. Senate Democrats had come forward with a program which called for a half-billion dollar Treasury bond issue for public works. Speaker Garner would double that figure. Other Democrats, William Randolph Hearst and Alfred Emanuel Smith among them, were asking even more. Upon all such propositions President Hoover frowned severely...
...President followed up his statements to Congress and the country in two ways: 1) He ordered his political entourage not to pick up his words for partisan purposes. 2) He forewent his week-end at the Rapidan to hold two night conferences in the Lincoln Study with Treasury officials and those men of his party who really count in the Senate. At these meetings a legislative program, of which Action was the keynote, was discussed, devised...
Last week President Hoover & friends drove out to the Rapidan camp for two days. He pulled on hip boots at once, went fishing by himself, caught twelve trout. One was 14 in. long. After lunch he napped. In a cold drizzle during the late afternoon he reeled in eight more trout, bringing his day's catch to the legal limit. Sunday newspapers and White House mail were dropped into the camp from an Army airplane. Wet, bleak weather drove the President & party back to Washington early...
...Naumburg Rosenberg of New York (to introduce his son Robert), Counsel James Francis Burke of the G. O. P. National Committee (to talk politics). ¶From the U. S. fish hatchery at Nashua, N. H. 320 adult trout were shipped to Virginia where they will be put into the Rapidan River for President Hoover & friends to catch. ¶ President Hoover instructed Secretary of State Stimson to sail this week for Geneva where he will spend a fortnight at the League of Nations Disarmament Conference. Statesman Stimson hoped the sea trip would help him recover from an attack of influenza. Twice...