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...Continued debate on the Tariff Bill...
Like many another big and busy man, President Hoover last week began a ten-day winter vacation. The Senate was poking along on the Tariff. The House with its robot membership could not conceivably get into mischief. The well-reefed London Naval Conference sailed cautiously over well-charted seas of diplomacy. Therefore the President packed a trunkfull of fishing tackle, stuffed a few papers in a small brief case, ordered a private car tacked on the end of the Atlantic Coast Line's Havana Special, and, with Mrs. Hoover, departed for Florida. His guests: Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone...
...Continued debate on the Tariff Bill. ¶ Adopted a House resolution appropriating $5,380,000 to provide Gold-Star Mothers with free trips to the European graves of their sons...
...Senator, 79, is Massachusetts's Frederick Huntington Gillett. Older than any Senator, with a far longer period of continuous Senate sendee, is Theodore F. Shuey, for 61 years a short-hand reporter of Senate debates. Last week Reporter Shuey, small, wiry, was 85. The Senate laid aside the Tariff Bill long enough to congratulate him on his great age and his still great ability as a stenographer. As it happened, he was reporting during this eulogy and with unerring accuracy took down words in praise of himself...
...journalists the most politically wise, and plucked out Charles Michelson of the New York World as its press agent, the Republican National Committee felt badly scooped. This feeling was increased when, during the summer, Press Agent Michelson earned more than his pay by masterfully effective broadsides against the Republican Tariff Bill...