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Frank H. Simonds '00 was made a knight of the Legion of Honor at a dinner in Paris Saturday evening at which Herbert Hoover, director-general of the international relief organization was the principal speaker. The decoration was awarded by Minister of Commerce Clementel...
...world must not deny a special recognition to Mr. Hoover, chairman of the Belgian Relief Commission, who saved the Belgians from starvation and subsequently organized the food supply for the European Allies to tide them over critical times...
...ascetics who observe Mr. Hoover's regulations should worry now. The Lampoon today unleashes a special number in commemoration of the wheatless, lightless, heatiess and generally lifeless days that food and fuel administrators have seen fit to decree. If it is still within the law to laugh and grow fat, the meatlessness of the current day ought not to cut down the undergraduate avoirdupois...
With strictly no offence to Mess. Hoover, Garfield, Endicott or Storrow, the Lampoon proceeds to have fun with the "--less" status to which our dally bread is now confined. In poetry, prose and picture Lampy finds life quite askew, and not so terribly boring as a result of enforced economies...
...operate our commercial and industrial activity. Meetings, which the President is expected to attend, will be held very frequently. Although this council is intended to be superior to the Cabinet, in that it coordinated the activity of the secretaries with that of the specially-appointed regulators such as Mr. Hoover and Dr. Garfield, yet it will not interfere with the regulation itself. As a connecting link between the Chief Executive and his assistants, it will relieve one of much difficult, management, and unify the efforts of the others...