Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-31

Herbert Hoover is not nearly so worry
proof as his predecessor in White House
tribulations, Calvin Coolidge, but the
Californian shows few signs that his
woes are unnerving him. The Presi-
dents medical advisers are authority
for the statement that no Chief Execu-
tive in recent years was ever In better
shape than Mr.. Hoover today. That he
has Travelled an unusually rocky road
during the past six months is every
bodyS secret. AS a superSenStttve man,
he finds the going pretty hard. The
administration is reaping far more than
the usual crop Of bad breaks which are
harvested by new regime. Some OF
then-like the Wall Street crash-were
entirely beyond Hoover's control, even
though under the American political
system he cannot escape popular re-
sponsibility for them. The Presidents
philosophical bent is standing him in
good stead amid the encircling gloom.
His friends represent him as feeling that,
on the whole, things are happening just
about as they normally do, and conf
dent that sooner or later the White
House heavens will be cloudless-or as
cloudless as they ever can be.
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C. Bascom Slemp just nominated for
I
Virginia district for the eleventh time,
is en- route to California on an inter-
esting legal expedition. He was drafted
to take charge of the ill-starred fortunes
of Alexander Pantages, the Los Angeles
theatrical magnate who is maneuverlng
to secure his liberation from a long
prison sentence Mr.. Slemp has hitherto
not been active in practice OF criminal
law, but his fame as pecunarly
shrewd counsel and adviser long ago
spread across the country, and the
Pantages interests have commissioned
him to handle the appeal proceedings
looking to a retrial. Ever since Slemp
left the Coolidge private secretaryshlp
in 1925, the Virginian has maintained
law Offices in Washington while retain
| ing his residence in the Old Dominion
Representative William ]. Granfield
Democrat, of Massachusetts,, who re-
! Gently captured the Republican strong
hold of Northampton, is an alumnus o.
/ Notre Dame. The current number OF
/ the Irish campus monthly gives tnt
/ place of honor to Peaches" Grant1eld
| LII. B., 'l3. He's remembered at Notrt
| Dame as a crack base ball player anc
basket ball captain. The Cincinnati
Reds signed him at graduation, but he
decided to prefer the law as career
Granfield was star in Knute Rockne'
| undergraduate days and shared athletic
| honors with that great gridiron hero
| The new member for Northampton ac'
| uuired his Notre Dame nickname Of
! Peaches" from a maiden indulgence II
a brand of chewing tobacco known or
! the campus as "Peachey Scrap" The
cud sent Granfield to hospital for re-
! ARRANGEMENT of his interior decoration:
and with Peaches" wished onto hin
for the rest Of his college days.
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Arthur Bliss Lane, just named a!
! counselor and charge d'affaires of thu
American embassy in Mexico. pending
the return of Ambassador Morrow, Il
considered more than likely perma'
nent successor of the Jersey diploma
and Senator designate. Mr.. Lane quail
fees in the particular which Presiden
Hoover recently stressed as an essentia
in our ENJOYS to Latin countries, name
ly, the ability to talk their languages
Spanish is as easy for him as English
He is moreover, q specialist in Mexican
and Central American affairs. All tn,
ms and outs of our two decades of tur
mol with the republic beyond the Ri
Grande are at Lanes fingertips. I'm
less, as in the case of the Paris ant
Berlin embassies, political exigencies re
quire the appointment Of deserving
Republican, Lane is the logical Ambas
sador for Mexico City.
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One of Senator Dave Reeds lament
over the prolongation of the agony q
London Is his enforced absence from
the Republican senatorial and guber