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...President of the U. S. "shall from time to time give to the Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient." So says the U. S. Constitution. President Hoover last week obeyed the injunction for his third time in 21 months of office. He did not go to the Capitol himself. Instead, clerks intoned his Message from the Nation's rostra. The Nation's legislators take an opportunity like this to go and eat their luncheons, gossip in the lobbies...
...feel warranted in asking the Congress for an appropriation of from $100,000,000 to $150,000,000. In connection therewith we need some authority to make enlarged temporary advances of Federal-highway aid to the States. I recommend that this appropriation be made distributable to the different departments upon recommendation of a committee of the Cabinet and approval by the President. . . . "The Congress will have presented to it numbers of projects, some of them under the guise of, rather than the reality of, their use of employment during the depression. . . . I can not emphasize too strongly the absolute necessity...
...year called a White House Conference on Child Health & Protection.* He appointed Secretary of the Interior Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur chairman; Harry Everett Barnard, Indianapolis chemist & sanitarian, director. Last week 1,200 dignitaries and clerics, who investigated for them, and 2,000 secondary experts, assembled in Washington to report, recommend...
...almost forget her 52nd birthday last week. She was irate because she learned almost at the last minute that a committee of the conference, a committee which Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service headed and to which she belonged, was prepared to recommend that child hygiene, maternity and infancy work of her Children's Bureau be transferred to the Public Health Service...
Surgeon General Cumming's committee decided not to recommend the transfer. But the proposal is not dead. A "continuation committee" of the conference will weigh the matter for future report to conference members...