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Platform Carpenter. To head the Chicago convention's resolutions committee which will carpenter the platform President Hoover selected James Rudolph Garfield, 66-year-old son of the 20th President of the U. S.* This tall, solemn, white-haired Cleveland lawyer served as Secretary of the Interior under Roosevelt, stood by him "at Armageddon...
...Right Hon. Richard Bedford Bennett is a solemn, pious and abstemious citizen. But like New York's James John Walker he has friends always anxious to do him favors. Premier Bennett waits for no summons. Last week, anxious to throttle a "whispering campaign," he hurried before the Canadian Parliament's Committee on National Railways to explain about the rent he is paying for his suite in the Cháteau Laurier...
Peasant-born Albert Lebrun, the engineer recently elected President of France (TIME, May 16), sat owl-solemn through a Cabinet session last week, stroked his wide black mustache from time to time as Premier Tardieu formulated plans "to keep a much closer watch on all foreigners in France or entering France." Lest U. S., British or German tourists be scared away it was elaborately hinted that Russians, Italians and Spaniards will be the chief objects of scrutiny...
...Tokyo they disposed last fortnight of the "Old Fox," assassinated Premier Ki Inukai. Public & Press remained apathetic, convinced that the death of this wily political boss was good riddance. But in his native city of Okayama there was a solemn, spontaneous mourning procession...
...essentially religious man, considered the Church a desirable adjunct to the State. He planned for Washington "a church for national purposes." Not in his lifetime, nor in the succeeding century, was anything done about founding one. There existed in Washington no official church for state weddings or funerals or solemn thanksgiving or prayer in time of stress. The religion of the U. S. President was, and is, of no concern to the State: he could worship, get married, be buried with his own kind. But for the nation itself there ought to be a church, thought George Washington and many...