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...this generation-Roosevelt and Wilson" were some of the things Editor William Allen White last week called his great and good friend President Hoover in the first issue of a new Republican campaign tabloid weekly.*;In the same issue Will Irwin began an interview with the Secretary of the Interior thus: "Ray Lyman Wilbur looked up at me across the tracks of a baby dinosaur. . . ." C. Last week President Hoover contemplated the New York stockmarket (see below), moved against unemployment...
...Lyman Wilbur last week got a new lease on Cabinet life. When his great & good friend President Hoover made him Secretary of the Interior, Dr. Wilbur, as president of Stanford University, was given a year's leave of absence by his trustees. That leave expired Aug. 31. Last week the Stanford Daily, undergraduate publication, editorially demanded that Dr. Wilbur resign either his Cabinet position or his college presidency...
...under fire from a new quarter last week. The People's Legislative Service (insurgent Republican mouthpiece) loudly complained that as Stanford's president he had invested $7,000,000, one-quarter of the college's endowment fund, in public utility bonds, while as Secretary of the Interior he acts as chairman of the Federal Power Commission to supervise the finances of the same companies in which Stanford is an investor...
...economics." Vith doleful tales of hard times ringing in his ears, the President next appointed a special Cabinet Commission to "formulate . . . plans continuing and strengthening the organization of Federal activities for employment during the winter." Its members: Secretary of Commerce Lamont (chairman), Secretary of Labor Davis, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur, Secretary of War Hurley, Secretary of the Treasury Mellon, Federal Reserve Board Governor Meyer...
Beaten in Congress, angry Arizona last week began in the U. S. Supreme Court a final attack upon Boulder Dam* The court allowed the State, through K. Berry Peterson, its attorney general, to bring suit against California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur in an attempt to have the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Project Act declared unconstitutional...