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Proverbs Verse Chosen by Hoover at Inauguration

March 7, 1929
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Herbert Hoover, in taking oath of office as the thirty-first President of the United States. Kissed the verse in the Proverbs in his old family Bible, reading:

“Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law. happy is he.”

Rabbi Julian L. Greifer, director of the Community Center of the Middletown Hebrew Association, has been appointed chaplain at New Hampton Farms, the reformatory conducted by New York City. Rabbi Greifer has also been named instructor in the Old Testament by the International Council for Religious Education, a training school for Sunday School teachers, an institution maintained by Christians.

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