THE PRESIDENCY: Rest Week

Last week was rest week for President Hoover, home from his speechmaking journeys. His White House mail indicated that his address to the American Bankers Association at Cleveland had been the most successful.

¶ The President's special train stopped at Salisbury, N. C. Cried an old man: "We're for Hoover 100%." Replied the President from the rear platform: "Well, now that you've got the habit, keep it."

¶ To his Rapidan camp went President Hoover for a short weekend. He found his son Herbert who is fighting off tuberculosis "doing very nicely." Mrs. Hoover...

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