Monday, Apr. 21, 1924

Richard Pretlow Ernst, junior U. S. Senator from Kentucky: "Commenting on Senator Couzens' attack on Secretary Mellon's department [see Page 2], I said: 'Every time Secretary Mellon's name was mentioned up went the Senator from Michigan with his tail in the air like a horse at a county fair.' "

Ishbel MacDonald: "I and my father made a weekend visit to their Britannic Majesties, George and Mary. My father was received not as Prime Minister but as personal guest.''

Herbert C. Hoover: "In Chicago, addressing the Izaak Walton League, I said there are too few fishermen in public life. 'A fisherman,' said I, must be of contemplative mind. . . No one can catch fish in excitement, in anger or in malice. He [the fisherman] is by nature possessed of faith, hope and even optimism."

Magnus Johnson, junior U. S. Senator from Minnesota: "Ignoring the Constitution of the U. S., which declares that no foreign-born citizen shall become President, I declared in a speech at Washington that I was 'seriously thinking of running for the Presidency.' It was later pointed out that I was born in Sweden of Swedish parents."

Rear Admiral Charles Peshall Plunkett: "Addressing blind men in Light House No. 1, Manhattan, I astonished the audience by saying that I had raised a boy who had been blind from the age of 2. I revealed that my protege had lived in Boston, attended Harvard College and Law School. At the end of the speech I ordered the bandmaster to play the colors. To curious reporters I gave no further information."

Harry M. Daugherty, onetime U. S. Attorney General: "My son, Draper, was reported to have obtained a job as an extra in a picture entitled Helen's Babies now being produced in the neighborhood of Los Angeles. He issued a statement in which he expressed a desire to learn the business."