The Hoover Week

For six months the vice governorship of the Philippines has been a black-starred appointment on the White House job calendar. President Hoover first selected Nicholas Roosevelt, New York Times editorial writer. Filipino Politicos went into a frenzy of protest against him, on the ground that he had written hostile things about them. Rather than cause friction Mr. Roosevelt gracefully declined the appointment, took instead the post of U. S. Minister to Hungary (TIME, Oct. 6). Other candidates were studied, discarded. Last week President Hoover turned to Texas and found his man-- tall, slender, greying-haired George Charles Butte of Austin. Born in California 53 years ago, the new Vice Governor was educated at Heidelberg and Paris. He had special qualities to please his President: 1) he can speak Spanish fluently; 2) his service as Porto Rico's Attorney General (1925-28) proved him a good colonial administrator ; 3) as dean of the law school of the University of Texas (1923-24) and as a special assistant to the U. S. Attorney General (1928-30) he showed himself a scholarly lawyer; 4) though he was the Republican nominee when the Fergusons won the governorship of Texas in 1924, he was recommended to the White House by no less an ardent Democrat than Texas Senator Tom Connally. Porto Ricans proclaimed the good fortune by Filipinos to get such a Vice Governor as Dr. Butte. Impressed, Politicos Quezon and Osmena in Manila announced that they were quite satisfied. President Hoover felt that he might well congratulate himself. P: "We need to be more humble," President Hoover was told at Quaker meeting by Miss Muriel Lester, London slum worker. P: With his special message on the World Court written and ready to send to the Senate, President Hoover was informed that at least 20 Senators would oppose ratification of the Root Formula so strenuously as to block any chance of action at this session. But the President was comforted to hear that a canvass of 2,036 U. S. newspapers revealed 1,357 in favor of the World Court. P: Early one morning Mrs. Hoover motored down to the Union Station, hid herself behind the concourse grill while Boris, the President's valet, went through the gate and down the platform. A long Pullman train pulled in. Off hopped a little girl and boy in fur-trimmed blue coats. Behind them came their mother and a nurse carrying their baby sister. Boris took each child by the hand, led them dancing and prancing back to the gate. There they spied Mrs. Hoover in hiding. "Grandmother!" they whooped and rushed into her arms. Thus did the President's grandchildren --Herbert III, 4; Peggy Anne, 5; Joan, 6 months -- come to the White House for a long stay. A four-room nursery suite was ready for them on the top floor. P: A bride & groom were entertained at White House luncheon -- Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays and the onetime Mrs. Jessie Herron Stutesman. P: Mrs. Henry Drought asked President Hoover to attend the sooth anniversary celebration of the construction of the Spanish Governor's Palace at San Antonio, Tex. next March. Another Texas caller was National Republican Committeeman Rentfro Banton Creager, ''Red-Headed Rooster of the Rio Grande." P: Widespread is the Washington belief that Postmaster General Brown wants to succeed Charles Curtis as Vice President in 1932. Going to Cabinet meeting last week Vice President Curtis walked squarely under a ladder in the executive office lobby. "General" Brown carefully picked his way around it. P: President & Mrs. Hoover gave their big "gold braid" reception to the diplomatic corps. Hands shaken: 1,494. With a "Hello, Dolly!" and a "Hello, Alice!" Mrs. Edward Everett Gann and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth also shook hands, made up their social precedence feud. P: Last week the Federal Farm Board reported thus on its wheat & cotton stabilization efforts: "The outcome was not all that had been hoped for." Never the-less President Hoover asked Congress to give the Board another $150,000,000 to continue its experiment.

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