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...final week in the White House. The last State dinner was for Speaker John Nance Garner, uncomfortable in evening clothes. There was a tea party for the White House secretariat. Army & Navy officers rubbed shoulders with employes from the Treasury and Labor Departments at the final State reception. The sub-Cabinet gave the President a good-by dinner at the Mayflower Hotel; he was presented with a desk chair. The Cabinet lingered long over an informal Sunday supper at the White House. A steady stream of G. O. Partisans passed through the executive offices to wring Herbert Hoover...
...Delano Roosevelt spent his last week as a private citizen in a buzz of conferences and confusion, packing and play, travel and talk. There was little real work to be done before he took over the Presidency. His Cabinet was off his mind (see p. 12). Appointments to the sub-Cabinet and the diplomatic corps could wait until he got into the White House. He had written his Inaugural address. Most new Presidents orate an hour or more; he planned to speak for eight minutes, broadly outlining the "New Deal" and leaving its specifications to the message he would deliver...
...Bliss '36, business manager of the Freshman Red Book, announced yesterday the election of five Freshman to the Red Book Business Board. The newly-elected sub-chairman is Edward Putnam Currier, Jr. '36, of Scarboroughon-Hudson, New York. The other members are: Richard Abeles Illoway '36, of Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, Walter Avery Kernan '36, of Utica, New York, Frederick Clarke Lawton '36, of Plainfield, New Jersey, and Edwin Howard Baker Pratt '36, of Glen Cove, Long Island...
...make-up were made. Although only 11 men have as yet been picked, Drufy announced that three additional members will be designated this week, bringing the final number to 14. Before the annual is published late in April, the member showing the most originality and efficiency will be chosen Sub-Chairman to assist Drury in his duties...
Meanwhile, during the past month, the Committee of Nineteen's sub-Committee of Nine had been playing a diddling game of questions & answers with Japanese Delegate Yosuke Matsuoka, each side trying to outdo the other in feats of diplomatic finesse. This parlor pastime abruptly ceased as the sub-Committee buckled down to drafting the suggestions of M. Massigli and Captain Eden into form for action by the Assembly...