Washington, Feb. 27.
President Herbert Hoover, who iwas defeated for re-election' in the most sharply-drawn partisan campaign in the history of the nation, to-day renounced partisanship Jmethod of solving national problems and meeting the needs of the people. public ional Committee which In a farevéetl letter to the Re-
did everything in its power to keep him in office, the President thanked the party for the high honour it had conferred upon him but urged national ce-operation in meeting "The. President asserted that, in times like the present, partisanship must be secondary to whole-hentted ce-operation and he urged the National Committee to give its hand to every sound move to improve
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