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...President Hoover went to Richmond, Va. to address a conference of Governors on taxation and economy. He exhibited a table showing the rise of all governmental costs-Federal, State, municipal- from less than three billion dollars in 1913 to 14 billions in 1930. As the President left the rostrum, New York's ambitious Roosevelt stepped forward with outstretched hand. "Glad to see you again," said the President as they shook hands. Governor Roosevelt was ready with a compliment: "Very good speech, Mr. President." During the Wilson era the Hoovers and the Roosevelts were fast friends, saw much of each...
...vociferous foe of La Follettism, announced his candidacy for the Senate from Wisconsin. As a "stalwart" he will try to take the Republican nomination away from Senator John J. Elaine, La Follette "Progressive," in the September primary. Candidate Chappie got the front steps of the White House for a rostrum. "I make this announcement," he said, "after discussing with President Hoover at luncheon the campaign leading up to victory of real Republicans in Wisconsin. ... I take my stand with President Hoover. . . . It's time poison-peddlers be driven to cover...
...cases the chairman is a former president retired to sinecure. The president gives orders as a team captain would, is controlled by the directors chiefly through their power to remove him. The chairman is often spokesman for his board. Typical of a chairman who uses his position as a rostrum is voluble Charles Michael Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Corp. Examples of well-known chairmen who have retired into the position are Charles Sumner Woolworth, 75, and Henry Holiday Timken. 64. Some chairmanships are frankly nominal. Such is James Anson Campbell's position as "chairman emeritus" of Youngstown Sheet & Tube...
Mayor Key is not in the best of health. His secretary has to help him up to the rostrum of his Bible class. At banquets he dozes wearily. But last week's vote displayed not only his political mastery of Atlanta but his determination to give his city economical government at any personal hazard. Last week his enthusiastic friends talked loudly of running him for Senator or Governor...
Small dapper Congressman William I. Sirovich of New York is one of the best showmen in the House of Representatives. An M. D., he has been known to line up a row of grisly exhibits across the Speaker's rostrum to impress upon his colleagues the evils of narcotics. He is the author of Ten Commandments to End the Depression. He is also the author of three plays. To the assistance of other playwrights and other showmen Congressman Sirovich rode full tilt last week...