The Hoover Week

"I have not in 15 years since I entered public service had a dime's interest outside the United States of any kind, including oil," President Hoover last week telegraphed G. O. Partisans in Southern California. They had complained that Democrats were circulating stories to the effect that President Hoover had large foreign oil holdings which made him unsympathetic to an oil tariff. The President added that he did not believe an oil duty could have been voted into the 1932 Revenue Act without his support.

P: Last week the Indiana Anti-Saloon League endorsed President Hoover for reelection.

P:When President Hoover went to Des Moines early this month, he received aboard his special train Mrs. Mollie Brown Carran of West Branch who was widely publicized as his first school teacher (TIME, Oct. 17). Mrs. Carran promptly rejected the "first" claim, explained that she was only the first teacher her pupil, aged 10, could remember before he went West. She named Mrs. Elizabeth Chandler Sunier of Iowa City as the person who started Herbert Hoover's education. Interviewed last week, Mrs. Sunier declared: "Did I think Bertie would be President? Of course I didn't and I wish they wouldn't call him Herb. . . . There was none of this first day crying for him. No, sir! I remember I thought he was unusually cute. He never looked at me that he didn't smile. Was Bertie particularly bright? No, he wasn't but he paid such close attention."

P:President Hoover received at the White House Dr. Kung Hsiang-hsi, member of the Executive Council of the Chinese National Government. Other callers of the week: Dr. Ernst Benedikt, editor of the Vienna Neue Freie Presse, James H. Rand Jr. (Remington Rand Co.), Edmund Ezra Day and Professor John Henry Williams, experts preparing for the World Economic Conference.

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