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...intangible problems of politics. Such problems last week beset President Hoover. He had been one year in office. The executive side of his administration was in good shape. The legislative side was not. Congress had given him only one measure, a Farm Relief Act. In the Senate the tariff blocked all other legislation (see p. 17). Important appropriation bills were stacking up. Both Wets and Drys in Congress were dissatisfied with his handling of Prohibition through the Wickersham Commission, editors began to write leaders about his loss of popularity...
...troubles with him, President Hoover twice last week summoned his best legislative friends to his White House breakfast table. There together they pondered the imponderable forces of politics that seemed to be working against the President. What concerned President Hoover was the Senate's protracted discussion of the Tariff, with its consequent delay to other important legislation. He spoke darkly of thousands of U. S. employes on public works who would have to be laid off unless Congress voted them money soon, then warned Congress not to spend more money than the budget authorized...
...pages, "are the measuring sticks of progress." The printed word, and often the printed word alone, redeems civilizations from an unknown past. It seems especially significant that this standard of values should emerge from the nation's capitol where progress is generally judged by criteria vaguely concerned with the tariff and a Mexican ideal of procrastination. Yet, it is quite fitting that just as Washington is the nerve center of national legislation it should also be the clearing house for national scholarship. The new ramifications of the Congressional Library fulfill this function and provide an opportunity which cannot be lightly...
...fight on Mr. Hughes commenced slowly, almost apologetically, at the instigation of Nebraska's Senator Norris. Gathering momentum, it quickly drew in Idaho's Senator Borah, chronic complainant. Within the year Senator Borah had opposed President Hoover on farm relief, on the tariff, on prohibition enforcement personnel, on "freedom-of-the-seas" at the London Naval Conference. It was no great leap from loyalty for him to object to President Hoover's choice as Chief Justice. One by one other Republican Progressives began to rally against Mr. Hughes. Such assorted Democratic Senators as Virginia's Glass...
...prohibition contest unreflective of national sentiment toward the Hoover administration. Democrats in Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding whack delivered to the 18th Amendment...