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Last week President Hoover threw conciliation and consultation to the winds. Unexpectedly he issued a statement appointing Editor Doak after all. He took occasion to rebuke Mr. Green, saying: "[His] enunciation that appointments must come from one organization in fact imposes upon me the duty to maintain the principle of open and equal opportunity and freedom in appointments to public office...
...vote of 299 to 234 the House threw out Mr. Baldwin's censure, sustained Scot MacDonald...
...Harvard representatives started the game brilliantly, scoring a touchdown on the very first play when Nitkin intercepted a Brown lateral on his own 40 yard line, gained ten yards himself, and then threw a deceptive lateral to Bloom, who ran over for the score. This initial play was the outstanding feature of the game...
Early in the week a mill near Tokyo's railway station closed down because of the general business depression, threw hundreds of factory hands out of work. Kiyoshi Tanabe, a railway flagman employed at the plant, ate a large meal, drank quantities of water, then kilting his short cotton jacket about him swarmed up the silent factory chimney and sat on the top vowing that he would never come down till his fellow workmen were re-engaged...
...flunkeys threw wide the door, Crown Princess Juliana rose courageously to face her Queen and mother, then exclaimed with a glad cry as she rushed to embrace her father: "It's only Mecklenburg...