THE PRESIDENCY: The Hoover Week: Oct. 27, 1930

President Hoover’s autographed photograph was on its way last week through the Red Sea to Abyssinia as his coronation present to Ras Tafari, “King of Kings.” Germany’s President von Hindenburg also sent a signed picture of himself, together with 500 bottles of fine Rhine wine.

¶ So great has been the Virginia drought that the water in the cistern at the Rapidan camp was last week reduced to a few inches. On the advice of caretakers the President limited his week-end guest list to three. At the camp he saw his son Herbert Hoover Jr. who next month will be removed to Asheville, N. C., to continue his fight against tuberculosis.

¶ A “seer of visions,” a “blood brother to the great idealists of this generation—Roosevelt and Wilson” were some of the things Editor William Allen White last week called his great and good friend President Hoover in the first issue of a new Republican campaign tabloid weekly.*;In the same issue Will Irwin began an interview with the Secretary of the Interior thus: “Ray Lyman Wilbur looked up at me across the tracks of a baby dinosaur. . . .” C. Last week President Hoover contemplated the New York stockmarket (see below), moved against unemployment.

*Just prior to Herbert Hoover’s nomination, Editor White in his Emporia (Kan.) Gazette called him a capon.