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...Spanish War gave a Hoosier named John Henry Hoeppel such a taste for army life that he stayed on in the service as an enlisted man for nearly 20 years. Discharged with a commission after the World...
...John Henry Hoeppel became postmaster of Arcadia, Calif, in 1923. In 1932 he was elected to Congress as a Democrat. In 1934 Representative Hoeppel was given the privilege of appointing a young man to Annapolis. Simultaneously another...
California Congressman had an appointment to make to West Point. They made a trade, and Old Soldier Hoeppel had the satisfaction of appointing his son Charles to the U. S. Military Academy...
Sale of his Congressional West Point appointment for $1,000 was the rare charge on which a special Washington grand jury last week indicted California's loud Representative John Henry ("Colonel Hoopla") Hoeppel, with his son Charles Jerome. Representative Hoeppel's first appointee to the West Point vacancy was son Charles Jerome, who quickly flunked out. Then, according to the Government, Father & Son Hoeppel sold the appointment to one James W. Ives of Baltimore for his son. Mr. Ives gave Son Hoeppel a promissory note for $1,000, found the appointment illegal, notified the War Department...
...other side of the moon. It goes into the Record for the benefit of the homefolks, if they are moonstruck. Largely on this basis, Pennsylvania's Kelly proposed that RFC loan up to 50% of the property value of any business to its owners. California's Hoeppel wanted a $10,000,000,000 appropriation for "county loan agencies." More realistically, Minority Leader Bertrand Snell demanded restoration of the 15% pay cut in Federal salaries. And an echo of Hoover times sounded when Minnesota's Lundeen filed a petition to force a vote on a bill...