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...will be less neces sary for employment purposes after June of next year." Herbert Hoover may not be President when the 1934 budget becomes operative July 1, 1933. ¶Last week President Hoover accepted the resignation of John William Pole, Comptroller of the Currency. For 17 years a civil servant, Mr. Pole had been made Comptroller during the final days of the Coolidge regime. He showed rare courage in office by allowing national banks to carry their bonds at fair values through the worst of Depression, thus saving them from insolvency. Mr. Pole becomes president of Fidelity Investment Association...
...McCoy & Spy- Privately members of the League Commission are telling friends about fun they constantly had with Japanese spies, even in China. The story goes that in Peiping Mrs. Frances Judson McCoy, wife of the U. S. member, General Frank Ross McCoy, entered her hotel bedroom, caught a servant red handed in the act of "dusting." "Splendid!" cried Mrs. McCoy. "The room is dirty isn't it? I am so glad you are dusting! Now get a mop and mop the floor." For two long hours the Japanese spy scrubbed, kept up the pretense that he was a Chinese...
...Without troubling der feldmarschall, policemen arrested Frau Zetkin in 1915 and kept her under indictment, though she was finally released. Last week she tongue-lashed thus: "Without consult ing the Reichstag, political power in Ger many has for the moment been grasped by a Presidential Cabinet which is the servant of trust and monopoly capital and of the agrarians and whose motive force is represented by Reichswehr Generals...
...Negroes were vexed with this northern idyll. Grumbled The Crisis, race paper: "Deliberate discourtesy. . . No invitation was extended to Mat Henson, the faithful colored companion and servant of Peary and his only comrade when he discovered the Pole. . . . Rude...
...Servant of Death?J. H. Wallis? Dutton...