Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...young wife, Ellen Jay. descendant of the first Chief Justice of the U. S., there got a job with the substantial firm of Root, Clark, Buckner & Howland. Four years later he had his own firm. In 1930, after he had helped investigate ambulance-chasing in New York, President Hoover picked him as a likely investigator to root around amid bankruptcy scandals in Federal courts. Ten years after he left Harvard, he found himself acting dean of University of Wisconsin Law School. It was from that post that President Roosevelt called him, aged 35. to Washington to head the Labor Relations...
...When Herbert Hoover, who went home only once in four years, was President, his aids worried much because he could not present himself in the role of a human being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart. At great pains they brought Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy who the Press headlined as having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year...
...save, acquire and keep property, he could not stir even a flutter of interest. But last week when six eminent gentlemen propounded these propositions they made front-page news. Finally it seemed as if the New Deal were to meet something more potent than the disorganized opposition of Herbert Hoover's well-beaten henchmen...
...Hudson can offer an established low-price model, Terraplane. Hudson also has Roy Dikeman Chapin (54), one of its founders, and one of the Industry's few shoe-string pioneers who are still relatively young. Roy Chapin did not look so young after serving a half-year as Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Commerce but since he returned to Detroit he has slowed Hudson's headlong flight into...
...Author. Born in 1896, Robert Littell is the great grandson of Eliakim Littell, who founded The Living Age in 1844. His father, Philip Littell, helped found The New Republic. Robert Littell left Harvard to enlist in the American Ambulance Corps, served as secretary to Herbert Hoover in the American Relief Administration after the War. He has been on the staff of The New Republic, was dramatic critic on the New York Evening Post, the old World. His first book, Read America First, was published in 1926. Candles in the Storm is his second...