Washington, Jan. 16, 9 mocking "letter 10. the former President, Mr. Herbert Hoover, the Secretary of Interior, Mr. Harold L. Ickes, to-day retracted his recent statement that some of the laws of the Hoover Administration were unconstitue ional.
"Tam willing to accept your statement," the Secretary wrote fo the former President, "that the laws were not unconstitue tional, in view of the fact that your administration was notable a do-nothing administration. I is entirely constitutional to do nothing."—United Press.
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