THE PRESIDENCY: Busy
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¶ Last week the nation's Press was embroiled in a controversy as to whether or not President Hoover had been booed by rooters at the Philadelphia World Series baseball game. Sports Editors Paul Gallico of the New York Daily News and Joe Williams of the World Telegram reported booing. The Associated Press heard none. Consensus was that on the entry and exit of President Hoover, respectful folk in the grandstand near him cheered, folk in the bleachers, farther away, jeered.
¶ Departing possibly for the last time this year for his Rapidan camp, the President took with him some of his closest friends: Mark Sullivan, his favorite Washington correspondent; Associate Justice & Mrs. Harlan Fiske Stone; Dr. & Mrs. Vernon Kellogg.
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