Wasitington, Apr. 4.
President Herbert Hoover to-day Acelared a ban on presidential hand-
'Suffering from a painfully swollen tas the result of shaking hands with 1,750 persons at the semiweekly' presidential reception Wednesday, Mr, Hoover announced that he intends to request members the Congress to limit their letters of introduction for the receptions to 10 each, as a maximum,—Senior Copeland, of New York, tent 180 persons with letters of introduction to the President to Wednesday'e reception, Mr, Hoover could write only with diMieutty to-day, his secretary said, and would have to keep his. handshaking down to a point where it will not interfere with his work, in future—United Press.
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