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...East Room, the President's son Allan, home from Harvard Business School, officiated in the distribution of presents and gimcracks from a huge star-topped tree. Next morning the Hoovers, old and young, were at the breakfast table in the State Dining Room when a sudden jingling of bells up the chimney produced a hush of surprise. While Peggy Anne and Herbert III watched in pop-eyed amazement, a round, red-cheeked, flesh-&-blood Santa Claus with a heavy toy pack stepped out on the hearth, approached them...
...Sudden Silence. Puzzling to many citizens must have been the sudden quiet that fell upon the Insurgent and Regular combatants immediately after Philosopher Dewey's exhortation. Senator Norris softly passed the matter off by saying, "Isn't that funny?" He promised to pro pose a Constitutional amendment doing away with the Electoral College, letting the People elect their President directly. Only thus, said he, would an independent have a chance. He also railed gently against Owen D. Young as the candidate of what is called the Power Trust and plunked mildly for New York's Governor Roosevelt...
...sundry costs. As it is, he only pays the U. S. his back taxes plus a $10,000 fine (about 2% per annum on the tax money which he has enjoyed for three years). He will also serve 18 months in jail (where he will be temporarily safe from sudden death). Already convicted on similar tax charges are Jack Guzik and Ralph Capone, Al's brother (TIME, May 5). They will probably appeal their cases. Chicago understood that Gangster Nitti was accepting this "rap," instead of fleeing the country as he easily might have done, at the express wish...
...explain President Hoover's sudden precipitation of so explosive an issue at such a ticklish time, observers came to a combination of conclusions. Apparently this move was part of the new Hoover determination, visible in other matters as well (see col. 2), to take a stronger hand with Congress, especially the Senate. Another large factor was undoubtedly the great lobby pressure placed on the Administration by Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the National Council for the Prevention of War. Lobbyist Libby, experienced at building great fires under great men on great issues, has long concentrated the full influence...
What put these Dry sessions on the front pages of the public prints was not their routine doings but the sudden appearance of Mrs. Mabel Elizabeth Walker Willebrandt, onetime (1921-29) U. S. Assistant Attorney General in charge of Prohibition. She had come to defend her new occupation as counsel for Fruit Industries, Inc. (TIME, Oct. 20). Because of her connection with this firm selling a grape juice concentrate easily convertible into wine, Drys have eyed Mrs. Willebrandt as a backslider in their Cause. After first refusing to hear her, the Temperance Council finally cracked open its doors...