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...felt like making. When the Admiralty tried to starve them out by cutting off their supplies, the mutineers retaliated by trying to blockade the Port of London. Government agents tried to start a counter-mutiny by smuggling thunderous proclamations into the rebellious ships. To this a mutineer tersely replied: "Dam my eyes if I understand your lingo or long Proclimations but in short give us our Due at Once and no more at it, till we go in search of the Rascals the Eneymes of our Country...
Taking the hint, the Press jumped to the conclusion that big Federal works, such as the Florida Canal and Maine's Passamaquoddy Dam. would be separated from Relief projects, brought inside the regular budget. Right or wrong in its guess, the Press was brought up short on a matter of terminology. To a newshawk who asked if the "double-budget system" would be continued, the budget-burdened President gave an irate answer: There never had been any double budget. Regular and Relief expenditures were kept separate for the same reason that the War and Navy Departments were kept separate...
...equally important when one considers that Ohio is not only one of the key states of the middle west, but that it is, as well, one of the leading factors in any national Republican movement. Its unanimous and determined stand against Mr. Hoover rather indicates that the dam is beginning to break in the inner circles of the G. O. P. Long before a candidate can be elected, the party which is supporting him must be purged of all divergent tendencies. This is precisely what is happening...
Reader Nunnally Johnson refers to the Los Angeles Times's "singlehanded fight to persuade the world that the name is Hoover, not Boulder, Dam" [TIME. Oct. 21]. The fight is not single-handed for the Chicago Daily News does the same thing. It may be a coincidence, but Frank Knox. the publisher, apparently has presidential aspirations and Mr. Hoover, according to TIME. is a mighty potent force in Republican ranks even today...
Married. Marie Mclntyre, 23, daughter of Marvin Mclntyre, No. 1 assistant secretary to President Roosevelt; and Frederick Hayes Warren II, 25. supervising architect on an RFC dam at Phoenix, Ariz.; in Washington...