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...after. Added to the War Department pruning planned the previous week-end (see p. 19), the Interior cut will take $8,000,000 off the 1932 budget. Next Departments for presidential pruning: Agriculture, Post Office, Treasury. ¶Last week President Hoover engaged a new literary secretary to replace French Strother, resigned. He was George Aubrey Hastings, 46, of New York, oldtime newshawk and press agent. His title will be Executive Clerk instead of Administrative Assistant and he will do the research and "ghostwriting" the President requires for public pronouncements, in addition to supervising the President's quasi-official conferences...
...Last week President Hoover lost another secretary when French Strother resigned his post as the White House's literary researcher, to take up fiction writing...
...White House from Sherman Square where he had lighted Washington's community tree and broadcast a 37-word holiday greeting to the land, there was a dinner for the children of the President's secretaries and aides- the three Akerson boys, John Marshall Newton, French Strother Jr., Dr. Boone's daughter Suzanne, and the son of Capt. Train. Afterwards all the White House lights were extinguished and President Hoover, carrying a candle like the others, led his small guests round and about through the darkened rooms singing carols. Mrs. Hoover at the end of the procession rounded...
...Senator Pat Harrison. With obvious relish he read on the Senate floor, sentence by sentence, from the "ludicrous" plan to "bedeck [the President's] brow with a coronet of praise and warm his heart with every complimentary expression." Also, he noted, the President's administrative assistant French Strother was once an editorial writer on World's Work...
...took a closely contested baseball game from the student body by the score of S-6. The faculty backfield appears to be a formidable one consisting of Assistant Dean J. C. Baker '23, S. P. Foster, E. S. Merrill, ex-captain of the Cornell baseball team, and D. H. Strother...