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...Hoover." "Hoover-Boloney & Apple Sauce." During the 20-minute drive to the Olympic Arena he was jeered and derided by sidewalk throngs. Inside the hall he was among 20,000 friends yelling and stamping their welcome. On the platform with him were Henry Ford, Governor Brucker, Senators Couzens and Vandenberg, Postmaster General Brown, Secretary of Commerce Chapin...
...Defeated (34-to-32) an Interior Department appropriation bill rider by Michigan's Vandenberg authorizing the President to reorganize the executive departments for economy's sake...
President Hoover hoped to complete his delegation by drafting at least one Republican Senator to go to Geneva. Last week he thumbed down through the list of the Foreign Relations Committee, paused near the bottom at the name of Michigan's Vandenberg...
...Manila has become a mecca for junketing Senators and Repre- sentatives. When Missouri's Senator Hawes, author of the pending independence bill, landed, he was almost overwhelmed with native demonstration of affection and delight. Other Philippine visitors included Senators Oddie and Pittman of Nevada, Patterson of Missouri and Vandenberg of Michigan; Representatives Gibson of Vermont and Dowell of Iowa. Most of them went to the islands with their minds made up for independence. After their visits all except Representative Dowell began to think that freedom might be an economic catastrophe...
...because his President wanted him quickly in Washington. Acting Secretary of the Treasury Mills kept popping in and out of the President's office every few minutes. President Hoover talked over long-distance telephone with Senator Borah in Idaho, Senator Robinson in Arkansas, Representative Hawley in Oregon. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, junketing in Canada, received a call from the White House in a Toronto drug store. Other Senators and Representatives, Republican and Democratic, trooped into the White House to confer with the President, trooped out again nodding their heads in silent approval. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon was reached...