THE PRESIDENCY: Gratified

One morning last week, almost as bright and sunny as the June day on which President Hoover electrified the world with his Moratorium announcement, stocky, smiling, middle-aged George Boyd, Capitol messenger, strode into the White House executive offices. Under his left arm he carried a big envelope which he delivered to the Hoover secretariat. From it was extracted a large, handsomely engrossed sheet of paper entitled: ''House Joint Resolution No. 147. To Authorize the Postponement of Amounts Payable to the United States from Foreign Governments during the Fiscal Year 1932." The...

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