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Boastful Miami, fidgety at being out of the publicity picture of a President on vacation in Florida, hired the Goodyear dirigible Defender and sent its Mayor C. H. Reeder and other potent citizens flying down the coast to the Hoover offshore fishing grounds. The Defender dipped low over the Saunterer, dropped a pouch on its deck containing a hail-and-farewell message from Mayor Reeder to the President. Only thus did Miami get into the Hoover holiday news...
...been smoothed out. Dispute again arose as to who shall hold the Presidential hat at the Inauguration. Newt Butler of West Branch, Iowa, was to have been official hat-holder, because as a boy he "licked the stuffing out of Bert Hoover." But now 92-year old J. W. Reeder of Tipton, six miles from West Branch, claimed the honor, chiefly on grounds of seniority. Mr. Hoover will decide the hat-holding problem personally...
...There was no definite Cabinet news (see p. 9). Inauguration news, too, was sparse. The President-elect said he hoped the ceremony would be "one of the extremest in simplicity that we have ever had." At Tipton, Iowa, one John W. Reeder, 92, hoped that the ceremony would not be too simple. He had asked to be, and been promised that he might be official holder of the Hoover hat on March...
Married. Charles Pelot Summerall Jr., Lieutenant U. S. A., son of Major General Charles Pelot Summerall, recently appointed Chief of Staff (TIME, Oct. 4); to Julia Potter Reeder; at Fortress Monroe...
...Slum, Left End Baxter, raced around the Navy end for a touchdown; another, one Reeder, was haled into the game to kick a field goal. Score: Army 10, Navy...