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Late last week the White House stirred with sudden, mysterious activity. President Hoover had not been back 30 minutes from his Mid-West trip (see p. ioj before Secretary of State Stimson hurried in to see him. Soon a presidential message to Utah's Senator Reed Smoot in Salt Lake City started the Finance Committee Chairman at top speed to Washington. Connecticut's Representative Tilson, House floor leader, was asked to the White House for the night. Pennsylvania's Senator Reed was asked to report for breakfast next morning. Virginia's Senator Glass hustled up from...
...because of Mr. Tilson's intense loyalty to White House policies, President Hoover would like to see his elevation. Already last week he had rivals for the Speakership?Rules Chairman Bert Snell, ultra-conservative and hardboiled, supported by New York and Pennsylvania; Kansas' Homer Hoch backed by mild Mid-West Insurgents; Indiana's little old Wood; Michigan's nice, stodgy Mapes...
...production, is surpassed only by U. S. Steel and Bethlehem in the extent of its ore reserves. It has girded itself for future growth, spending $7,000,000 on improving Weirton Steel's plants, in addition to the $25,000,000 program in Ecorse. Recently it incorporated Mid-West Steel to build a $50,000,000 plant on a 1,100-acre tract at Gary...
...these factors go together to make the Mid-westerners topheavy favorites today at odds ranging from 2 to 1 upwards, while critics the country over have picked the Wolverines to keep their slate clean and chalk up a point for the Mid-west in the intersectional rivalry tables. The only thing at present that may make the game a toss-up is the spirit of the Harvard tam, which may break forth in all its fury and wreak revenge on Michigan and bring a victory to Coach Horween in his last year as Harvard coach...
Reasons given for the decline: "The sport craze," "churchianity" instead of "Christianity," radios, motorcars, modernism in religion, expensive denominational programs, out-of-date evangelistic sermons and methods. The Far West provides almost no soul business, the East very little. Only region still reasonably profitable: the Mid-West...