The Hoover Week

When the Chicago thing was settled, President Hoover was not surprised. For months he had had a hunch that the Democrats would pick Governor Roosevelt to run against him. Mr. Roosevelt was his favorite candidate, the one he was told he could most easily beat. All aglow from medicine ball the President sat on the South Lawn of the White House with his fruit & coffee and listened to the second ballot at Chicago. That evening in the Lincoln Study he heard the fourth, final ballot. He had last seen "Frank" Roosevelt during the Governors Conference in Richmond in April. They had shaken hands. The Governor had told him he had made a "very good speech." In Wartime Washington under Woodrow Wilson they used to be good friends and see much of each other at informal Sunday suppers. That old relationship ought to save the campaign from getting personal and dirty. His advisers assured him the country was conservative and that Governor Roosevelt could be depicted and defeated like a second Bryan.

The President motored to his Rapidan camp for a long weekend. From newspapers dropped by plane he carefully read the Roosevelt speech of acceptance at the Convention. Then he took pencil & paper and began blocking out his own acceptance speech to be delivered later this summer from the South Portico of the White House.*

P: "For one of the most brilliant successes in the Nicaraguan campaign," President Hoover awarded the Navy Cross to Lieut. Samuel S. Jack, U. S. Marine Corps, of Glendale, Ariz. In April 1931, Aviator Jack had bombed a rebel camp at Puerto Cabezas, later directed a relief patrol to the siege of Logtown, all under heavy fire.

P: President Hoover signed appropriation bills for the State, Justice, Commerce and Labor Departments ($112,000,000) and for the Second Deficiency Bill ($22,000,000).

P: "I have signed the Economy Bill with but limited satisfaction," announced President Hoover. "It falls far short of the economies proposed." For fiscal 1933 which began last week the measure saved $150,000,000--2.9% of the Government's 1932 spendings of $5,006,000,000. Principal economy: furloughing government workers earning $1,000 or more per year for one payless month out of twelve.

* Calvin Coolidge in 1924 went to Continental Memorial Hall (Daughters of the American Revolution) to accept his nomination.

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