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...Drought, washed slowly out of the news by widespread rains, gave President Hoover last week a chance to bring from California to Washington his good friend Henry Mauris Robinson, put him to work for the Government. Mr. Robinson, board chairman of First National Bank of Los Angeles, has been "mentioned" for more different jobs under the Hoover Administration than any other friend of the President. He was violently speculated upon for almost every post in the Cabinet before inauguration. Each time President Hoover named a new commission, Mr. Robinson's name bobbed up in White House gossip...
...Chairman Aishton of the American Railway Association, Undersecretary of the Treasury Mills. President Hoover explained his friend's job: "Mr. Robinson has consented to serve for purposes of coordinating Federal with State and private credit activities." Secretary Hyde estimated that about $20.000,000 would have to be loaned drought-ridden farmers. Where the money was to come from nobody yet knew. Declared President Hoover...
...Rains have stemmed the spread of the drought and greatly improved the situation outside the acutely affected area [640 counties]. In those areas destruction of crops has proceeded to a point that is beyond any great degree of recovery. . . . From a relief point of view the burden of the problem in the acute area will show very much more vividly over the winter than at the present moment." ¶ Because pious Virginians protested that Marines guarding the President's Rapidan camp did not go to church. President Hoover ordered a Navy chaplain out from Washington, Sunday services held...
Nova Scotia's drought did not pass bloodlessly. At Truro, whose government liquor store could not be opened for another sennight for lack of supplies, the Rev. D. J. Grant, Chief Inspector of Nova Scotia under the old Nova Scotia Temperance Act staged a last-minute raid on the old Maritime Hotel, long suspected as a speakeasy. Raiders carried out one half-bottle of contraband rum but their chief, the Rev. D. J. Grant, had to be removed to hospital, severely battered...
Proposals. The President opened the conference in the Cabinet room. For three hours they talked. Most of the governors had come to Washington with the idea of securing Federal funds for drought relief. Governor Leslie wanted to borrow a million dollars from the Federal Reserve bank. Senator Robsion proposed that the U. S. underwrite farm tax payments in Kentucky. Governor Cooper asked for a million from any source he could get it. But President Hoover had no Federal cash to give the states. He explained that the Red Cross had made $5,000,000 available for emergency suffering, that...