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...President Hoover sent to Congress Secretary of the Treasury Mellon's plan for revising German payments to the U.S. for War claims and army occupation costs under the Young Plan, asked that it be approved. Another Hoover request to Congress: An additional $100,000,000 for the Federal Farm Board (see p. 14). ¶ From a window in his office in the State, War & Navy Building President Hoover briefly watched Communists demonstrating before the White House in the name of Unemployment (saw them dragged away by the police). Next day he issued a statement, said that unemployment was decreasing...
...Arizona, Calvin Coolidge put aside the role of "plain tourist" which he had assumed "to look around California quietly" (TIME, March 3) and became, for the first time since he left the White House, a public character performing a public function. At the request of President Hoover, he broke his homeward journey across the continent at Globe, Ariz. In state as they used to be, he and Mrs. Coolidge were escorted 30 miles out across the desert to a canyon in the Gila River. Across the canyon, backing the river up into a 25-mile-long lake...
Last week President Hoover sent to Congress a request for another $150,000 to keep the delegation solvent, if not active, at London. This sum he expected to last until mid-April, before which a termination of the parley is not looked...
Shortly, Queen Mary set off in the Royal Daimler with trusty Humphreys at the wheel to inspect the new Prince of Wales's wing in Alexandra Military Hospital at Westminster. While there she made avery special request. Soon the hospital's best, most splendiferous and highest-powered microscope was trained on a fresh and potent germ culture. Placing her eye as directed, the Queen squinted into a microscopic realm where savagery holds lawless sway, stood face to face with the hungry microbes of MALARIA...
...retired when 65. Under his regime the institution took an unprecedented scholastic polish. Its endowment was doubled. To wife he took, in 1891, Helen Harrison Morris of New Haven, whose father had been a Connecticut governor. Both his sons, Hamilton and Morris, were raised good Yalemen. Fulfilling his inaugural request, he was made President Emeritus...