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Each morning President Hoover scans all the New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington papers before he reaches his office. He has little sense of personal news value, no capacity to ignore what he dislikes.* The story of his fast ride from the Rapidan upset him because obviously he had violated Virginia's 45 m. p. h. speed law. But his leak investigation served only to revive public interest in this and other stories to which he objected. Among these were newssquibs that...
...President, trying to nap, had ordered a carpenter pounding nearby to "declare a moratorium on noise''; 3) a hideout had been constructed near the White House laundries where Secretary Walter Newton could hold secret political interviews; 4) Mrs. Newton had fallen from her horse into the Rapidan. The only story that Secretary Joslin branded as untrue was one to the effect that a Hoover wolfhound bit a Marine guard and the President, patting the animal's head, remarked: "Nice doggie! Now go bite General [Smedley Darlington] Butler...
...President Hoover's motorcade to the Rapidan entered the news a second time last week when a big bus cut in behind the President's car near Fairfax. Three of the four Hoovercade cars finally got around it. The last car, driven by Frank Connor of the New York Herald Tribune, started to go around at 50 m. p. h. when a rear wheel skidded and the bus sent Connor's machine spinning over & over into the ditch. Connor's wife broke her collarbone, suffered other injuries. Her husband got off with bruises. ¶Despite...
President Hoover first announced his debt holiday plan last month on a Saturday. Then he hurried off to his Rapidan camp for a weekend rest. Early Monday morning he started back to Washington. At Warrenton, Va., he stopped his car, bought an early edition of the Washington Post. As he began to read it, his eye fell on a story in which the political effects of his action were discussed by the impartial United Press. Set forth was the obvious fact that the President's proposal had greatly improved his prestige and helped his chances of reelection...
Washington was none too sure. Acting Secretary of State Castle came in from the Rapidan Sunday evening and announced that Germany's salvation was up to the world's banks to settle privately. The Government was exerting no pressure whatsoever. In New York, Mr. Mills said the same, reminding the world that the Hoover Holiday already had thrown $400,000,000 to Germany. By nightfall the best that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York could do was make an offer like London's: to share in another loan originating in some other central bank of issue. In other words...