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¶ Reappointed as chairman of the Red Cross Norman Hezekiah Davis. Mr. Roosevelt made clear his belief that Mr. Hoover's Finnish Relief drive confused and muddled the more orderly channels of the Red Cross. Rapped back Mr. Hoover: "It is a great pity that people will start out to poison the wells of human charity."

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