Party & Plans

In Mexico City last week onetime Vice President Charles Curtis, replete with a luncheon just given him by Ambassador Josephus Daniels, was reported to have "expressed admiration for President Roosevelt and the American delegates at the London Economic Conference."

From Palo Alto, Calif, went no such good-natured protestations from him with whom Citizen Curtis went down to defeat last November. Instead, onetime President Herbert Hoover grimly kept to himself his opinion of his successor in the White House, left his followers to wonder if he would try to be re-elected in 1936.* On July 29 in the Bohemian Grove near San Francisco many of the nation's tycoons will caper at the annual Bohemian Club outing. To be his guest at that famed revel Citizen Hoover asked Senator David Aiken Reed of Pennsylvania, a bulwark of the G. O. P.'s Old Guard who did yeoman service in the Senate for the White House in 1928-32. Observers guessed that Senator Reed was not going to take a three and a half-day train ride across the continent just for a party. Citizen and Senator would certainly talk over Republican chances in next year's Congressional elections and the Presidential election two years thereafter. If Herbert Hoover, nominal party chief, does not choose to head the G. O. P. ticket, he will still have a strong voice in selecting the man who will. Possible selection: Senator Reed.

*Grover Cleveland was the only President ever to stage a comeback after one White House term.

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