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Paying the U. S. $90, each member of the Hoover Cabinet last week had his heavy black leather & mahogany chair taken out of the White House and crated for shipment to his home as a souvenir.* Into the spacious, many-windowed Cabinet room were trundled ten brand new chairs for Franklin Delano Roosevelt to fill with his ten chief advisers. On the high stiff back of each chair was a metal plate naming the Cabinet job but not the jobholder...
...clustered about his car. In them was to be seen many a Catholic priest. Democrat Smith waved his brown derby but resolutely refused to speak or start handshaking. At Worcester one ardent friend snatched a cigar butt out of his hand, carried it off amid much scuffling as a souvenir...
Chiming in after Scot Gilmour, Scot MacDonald asked members of the House "not to say anything that would enable the organizers of the demonstration to pose as benefactors of the unemployed." No such thing was said (see below). Souvenir hunters, prowling over the seven-hour battlefield, collected bits of bloody rags, took snapshots of great dark stains before firemen washed them from the pavement of Boniface Street...
...When souvenir seekers tried to dash forward and dip their handkerchiefs into the wide, dark pool of blood, police forced them sternly back, hitched a hose to a neighboring hydrant, washed the street scrupulously clean...
...With souvenir green leather folders stuffed with postage stamps in their pockets, the delegates rushed off to catch trains and boats. Not until two days later was the Press told what Messrs. Bennett, Baldwin, Bruce et al., and King George, and the people of Argentina, Denmark, Russia and the U. S. had got out of the conference...