The Hoover Week

Last week President Hoover stuck close to his White House desk, saw few callers, braced himself for a prolonged contest with Congress. P: On Thanksgiving Day the President corrected proof on his message to Congress on the State of the Union (see below), punctuating the hours with an 18-Ib. wild turkey, shot in the Blue Ridge Mountains near his summer camp and presented to him by Postmaster William M. Mooney of Washington. With the White House in mourning for Secretary of War Good, only three extra plates were set, for Allan Hoover, Mr. & Mrs. Edgar Rickard. Other doings: one hour at church; two hours on a motor ride. P: Thirty-five public utility executives, led by Owen D. Young, chairman of General Electric, filed into the Cabinet Room, pledged nearly two billion dollars to the President's Momentum-for-Industry program. Total pledges: ten billion dollars. P: To the White House went Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, asked President Hoover to practice his own plea by preventing the release of 1,000 civilian employes at the U. S. Navy Yard at Brooklyn.

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