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...friends charged that his critics were playing small politics in opposing his confirmation, a neat retort was turned up in the form of a confidential letter to the White House which had inadvertently got into the judiciary committee files. This letter was from Assistant Secretary of the Interior Joseph M. Dixon, a North Carolinian, to Walter Newton, political secretary to President Hoover, written three days after the death of Justice Sanford. Excerpts: "North Carolina gave President Hoover 65,000 majority. It carries more hope of future permanent alignment with the Republican party than any other southern State. . . . The naming...
Born. To Mrs. Max Foster (Lois Wilbur) Hopper, daughter of U. S. Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur; a daughter; in Palo Alto, Calif. Name: Nancy Jane...
Mile Marie Meonie Chaptal, granddaughter of the Emperor Napoleon's Minister of the Interior, President of the French National Council of Nurses, delegate of the League of Nations Child Welfare Committee, returned to Geneva lately after a brief inspection of domestic life in the U. S. She did not like what she saw. Opening her report with a few words of praise for President Hoover who received her in the White House, she continued...
...meantime, being a misogynist and rather shy, he remains absorbed in his rhododendrons, which are sprouting undaunted beneath the new skyscrapers. As to said rhododendrons: in order to be sure that their colors will not differ in the slightest degree from that of the interior of the new Houses, he has carefully prepared a suitable quantity of the Right Sort of paint for their emergent petals. This goes to show that, after all is said and done, the little fellow is indeed a staunch friend of the Corporation...
Other Business. Winners of many of the Garvan Prizes which total $50,000, were announced. In the U. S. 288 high school pupils will receive $120 each for essays, six of the group will get scholar ships which will send them through col lege. Next year Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur will be chairman of the awards committee, succeeding Herbert Clark Hoover...