Sunday, January 11, 1931

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The Headlines

HOOVER REBUKES SENATE ON POWER BOARD; REFUSES TO RETURN NAMES OF 3 NOMINEES; SENATORS, 36 TO 23, ACCEPT HIS CHALLENGE; MESSAGE SENT TO SENATE The President Calls Its Action Encroachment on His Functions. NO POWER ISSUE, HE SAYS Statement to Public Asserts Senators Seek to Name Board's Subordinates. NAMES BACK ON CALENDAR Hostile Senators Will Also Try to Block Appropriations for Appointees' Salaries. Hoover Consults With Mitchell. Message Short and Sharp. Pierces Senate Camouflage. Senate Gets the Message. Walsh Is Insistent. Vote on the Walsh Motion. Wheeler Comments on Statement. Shortridge Defends President. Bonner Reinstatement Favored.

Best-selling Sheet Music

Minnie the Moocher

Cab Calloway

The must-have

Charlotte Clark Mickey Mouse

You Share a Birthday With

• William James (1842)
• Alexander Hamilton (1755)
• Theodosius I (347)
• Albert Hofmann (1906)
• George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859)

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Tech Check

Electric Guitar, Electron Microscope & Radio Telescope.

Cost of Living (1930)