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Nobody in the District of Columbia was busier than President Hoover last week. Returning from the World Series baseball game at Philadelphia, he announced that he had summoned a Congressional caucus (see col. 3). On Tuesday he held a Cabinet meeting all morning, prepared a draft of his Super Plan (see p. 13) which he read to his visitors at 9 p. m. The meeting adjourned at midnight. Next afternoon President Hoover held another long conference with builders, financiers, real estate men-notably Clarence Dillon of the Manhattan brokerage firm of Dillon, Read & Co. and President William Aiken Starrett...
...unite. Only last spring the Canton Government was reviling "Nanking's rococo façade" while the Nanking Government denounced Canton Foreign Minister Eugene Chen as a Bolshevik Red. Both charges were at least half truths, but last week Canton and Nanking found it possible to exchange envoys and draft a secret program for concerted action (TIME, June...
...executive vice presidents of Union Guardian Trust Co., clarioned: "Calvin Coolidge is the Moses to lead Americans from the present political turmoil that influences the present economic structure." During the past two years, hundreds of people like Banker Badger and scores of small Republican organizations have agitated to "draft Coolidge" back into the Presidency. For once & all, in a carefully copyrighted pronunciamento - "Party Loyalty and The Presidency"-for this week's Saturday Evening Post, badgered Mr. Coolidge said his say. His say: He does not want public office any more; he is willing to back and feels every believer...
While Colin Winthrop was making a fourth at bridge his wife was reading a letter from his mistress which he had carelessly left on the table. There would have been a divorce if the draft from the window had not made him sneeze when he tried to spend the night on the sofa...
...facts and figures, wrote out a speech while radio time was secured over two big broadcasting chains Next day, though, President Hoover read in the public prints that France's contrariness was increasing, decided that a Stimson speech might complicate future negotiations. When the Secretary returned with a draft of his address for White House approval, the President ordered him to pocket it, cancel the broadcast. Sheepishly Statesman Stimson told newsmen that he had decided to "sleep on it." Into the wastebasket went bales of the never-to-be-delivered Stimson speech just off the State Department mimeograph...