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...White House last week went men great in the law. They took to President Hoover their knowledge, experience and advice for his law enforcement investigation. A trained engineer about to sink a new shaft in quest of buried facts, the President plotted his operation cautiously. Six or nine worthy men had first to be found, men without passion or prejudice on prohibition. Their descent must be well charted-where to break ground, how far down to go, what machinery to use to bring up the ugly ore of crime...
...sometimes cast them for a long time on the richly embroidered Banner of all the Allied Nations, which hung above his head. Sometimes too he would call for his baton-the baton of a Marshal of France-and with the tips of his old fingers would caress along the shaft the hard and prickly stars...
Upstairs. When the President awakens in his four-poster mahogany bed, his eyes may travel out over the verdure of the White House park to the massy shaft of the Washington monument, which gleams pink at sunrise. If he goes to his south window and peers to the right, he may also see a corner of the State, War & Navy Building. In his room is the bed that was built for Abraham Lincoln, so huge (6½ ft. by 9 ft.) that four Roosevelt children could be comfortably tucked away in it crosswise...
ARGENTINA President Inaugurated Lying athwart Buenos Aires like the shaft of a dumb-bell is the spacious Avenida de Mayo, weighted at one end by the Congressional Building and at the other by Government House. Last week the dumb-bell was joyously surrounded by human myriads. The day was the Fiesta de la Raza (the Festival of the Race), a national holiday in most countries of South America. In Buenos Aires it was also the day on which Argentina's mysterious, seclusive master politician. Dr. Hipolito Irigoyen, would for the second time be inaugurated President of the Republic...
Since the election was held Vice-President-Elect Francesco Beiro has died and been replaced by Dr. Enrique Martinez. He and Dr. Irigoyen solemnly took their oaths of office last week in the Congressional Building, received a Congressional cheer, and then set off down the shaft of the dumbbell, flanked on either hand by deliriously joyful Fiesta throngs...