Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handy crow's nest from which to follow the doings, or lack of them, at the London Naval Conference was found by President Hoover last week in his temporary offices in the State, War & Navy building. Acting Secretary of State Cotton was just down the corridor and around the corner. The President's door was open to him at any hour with despatches from Chief Delegate Stimson at St. James's palace. Downstairs in the cable room were expert telegraphers. Code clerks filled the code room from which all snoopers were shooed away. Tall, curly-haired Pierre...
...complicated machinery for quick diplomatic communication was tuned up for the conference rush of business. Only lacking was the rush of business. The President could ask Statesman Stimson a question in London and get an answer in ten minutes, if necessary. But last week it was not necessary. President Hoover had few questions to ask because Statesman Stimson was doing little. And that was just what President Hoover wanted Statesman Stimson to do at first...
...President receives abundant advice. Last week Missouri's representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer, No. 2 Republican member of the House Judiciary Committee, urged the President to declare for 2.75% beer as a Prohibition solution. The President shunted beer to the deep-bottomed repository of the Wickersham committee...
...Last week Vice President Charles Curtis was 70. The Senate celebrated with speeches. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon gave him a birthday dinner party. The Senate festivities started when New York's Senator Copeland, a physician, predicted that the Vice President was still physically good for many another year of service. South Carolina's Senator Blease hoped he would become President. Alabama's Senator Heflin called the Curtis career an "inspiration to youth" while Indiana's Senator Watson likened him to a "veritable Gibraltar...
...Last week Vice President Curtis made his speech to the graduating class of the Peirce School of Business Administration in Philadelphia. Excerpts: "The leaders of today must give way to those of tomorrow. . . . We live in a choice age-there never was a better period than that which awaits the young man of today. . . . You are what the business world is waiting for. . . . Business needs and has room for all of your type...