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President Hoover spent his second week-end on the Rapidan mulling over relief legislation. Senate Democrats had come forward with a program which called for a half-billion dollar Treasury bond issue for public works. Speaker Garner would double that figure. Other Democrats, William Randolph Hearst and Alfred Emanuel Smith among them, were asking even more. Upon all such propositions President Hoover frowned severely...
...President followed up his statements to Congress and the country in two ways: 1) He ordered his political entourage not to pick up his words for partisan purposes. 2) He forewent his week-end at the Rapidan to hold two night conferences in the Lincoln Study with Treasury officials and those men of his party who really count in the Senate. At these meetings a legislative program, of which Action was the keynote, was discussed, devised...
...small, rheumatic terrier was in the house but did not bark while the child was being taken. There was no watchman, since Col. & Mrs. Lindbergh had never remained more than a week-end in their white, Colonial, $50,000 house since it was built, spending most of their non-flying time at the Morrow home in Englewood. There was a floodlight system on the grounds but it was not in use. These facts led some guessers to imagine that the person or persons who took the child knew that the Lindberghs were going to stay longer than their usual weekend...
This spring the Mountaineering club is planning an active schedule, including a number of week-end trips and a long trip lasting throughout the entire spring vacation...
...will open on March 18 with an ice climb on Mount Washington, it has been planned by the officers, Alden Megrew '32, president, and Archibald Callendar '32, vice-president. The members of the club will leave on Saturday and return late on Sunday. In the following weeks the club will engage in week-end rock climbs in the Blue Hills Reservation and in the Quincy granites quarries...