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...last week to receive a report from the public utility group of his business revival committee that utility building projects for 1930 would total $1,500,000,000. ¶ President Hoover, with Mrs. Hoover, attended the funeral of Mabel Hunter Richey, late wife of Hoover Secretary Lawrence Richey. From Rock Creek Cemetery the President drove to the Wyoming Avenue home of William Howard Taft. There he called upon the wife of the dying 27th President...
...Rock Business. South Africa is found to be in a period of "transition from post-War prosperity to bedrock normal business," having suffered like Australia from the fall of wool prices. Moreover the African "diamond market immediately became depressed" after "the great financial debacle in America" and "inevitably exercised an adverse influence on [South African] commerce and industry generally...
Rickety, rickety, rickety, rock, We leave Philly at seven o'clock, Leave New York smack at five; Ride the Reading, be alive-Rah, rah, rah, Seven o'Clockers...
...Republican district set political soothsayers to work. Republicans, badly jolted, attempted, in an awkward unconvincing way, to belittle the election's significance, to explain it away as a local prohibition contest unreflective of national sentiment toward the Hoover administration. Democrats in Washington minimized Prohibition, their party's rock of schism, joyfully saw in the election only an uprising against an outworn partisan cry of "Hoover prosperity," symptomatic of a major economic revolt against Republican diddling on the tariff and unemployment. Wets naturally could see nothing but a resounding whack delivered to the 18th Amendment...
...verbal crazy quilts); but he has written it in the good old-fashioned way. A native of Massachusetts, he is the author of a bill against censorship introduced in the State Legislature by Senator Henry Parkman Jr. last December. His other books: Indelible, Impromptu, Imperturbe, Low Run Tide, Lava Rock...