Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slowly, lest in his agitation his sweat leave a stronger trail for his pursuers. Somewhat on this principle, it was the pre-War fashion for aspirants to the Presidential nomination to proceed quietly in the early stages of the race. But if the highly successful premature activities of Mr. Hoover in 1927 and Mr. Roosevelt in 1931 have any significance, the fact that in October, 1935 Frank Knox is way ahead of his field augurs well for his chances in June, 1936. Who Is Alf Landon? Alfred Mossman Landon is favored for the nomination by the four Kansas Republican Congressmen...
...ring, but to speak "only about Kansas." Speaking only about Kansas last week he said: "I am extremely flattered by the Presidential talk, but these are difficult times and I owe the people of Kansas a duty to stick by my guns in the State." What Is Herbert Hoover? In the Republican equation for 1936, Frank Knox is a potent known quantity. Alf Landon is a potential quantity. Herbert Hoover is Quantity X. Herbert Hoover may utterly lack human plasticity. But no one familiar with him ever denied that he has a keen mind and is capable of at least...
...spectacular fashion. Amid a loyal salvo of applause, he began: "This issue of America is not a battle of phrases, but a battle between straight and crooked thinking. ... I shall confine myself on this occasion to one hard practical subject-the fiscal policies of this Administration." The Herbert Hoover his listeners saw was not the grey-faced, discouraged oldster of 58 who drove down Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue and out of public life on March 4, 1933, but a vigorous figure of 61 with rosy cheeks filled out to their rotund par. The Hoover health had been restored solely...
...crowd were Governors Lehman of New York, Hoffman of New Jersey, Earle of Pennsylvania, Cross of Connecticut. Fitzgerald of Michigan, Brann of Maine. There were One-Eye Connelly, Theodore Roosevelt. Ricardo Cortez, J. Edgar Hoover, Grade Allen, Warden Lawes, Paul Whiteman, Jock Whitney, Sally Rand. Gate receipts-including rights to radio and cinema-bettered $1,000,000. It was the first million-dollar fight since Dempsey v. Tunney in 1927, the sixth in ring history.* Hotels were packed to the doors, mostly by Middle Westerners celebrating a prosperous summer. Top-price on Broadway for ringside seats...
...tipped off Federal agents. Faced with deportation to Rumania, she marched into a Chicago court, changed her story, insisted she betrayed Dillinger. In return, said Tipstress Sage Melvin Purvis, then chief Chicago investigator of the Department of Justic promised to sidetrack deportation proceedings against her. While Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Division of Invest gation denied any such deal, the Chicago judge granted a temporary writ to prevent her deportation...