THE PRESIDENCY: Load of Distress

President Hoover last week worked on Work. To get a running start on Congress where dole demands are sure to appear next winter, he held conference after conference on unemployment and relief. From the Treasury he got a report which showed that $453,000,000 had been authorized for 758 public building projects, that at least $300,000,000 worth of this work would be actively started before snow flies. To the White House, Secretary of Labor Doak brought another report showing that in the last four months the U. S. Employment Service "by combing the...

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