Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fundamentally this seemed no great crime. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were never accused of bribery-by-belly when they hauled hollow-eyed politicians out of bed to attend early breakfasts at the White House and listen to Presidential persuasion. But Britain took the Churchill charge seriously. Grave under his wig, Speaker the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy allowed the resolution to be passed, without vote, to the Committee on Privilege for investigation...
Only less sensational than the Howes testimony was the testimony that the "friendly cooperation" of Mark L. Requa, Republican National Committeeman from California and close friend of Herbert Hoover, had been enlisted by Cord's Century Air Lines in 1931 in a campaign to obtain airmail contracts. Placed in evidence was a letter in which Cord had written to his able First Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning: "Requa seems to think ... it is a cinch that Postmaster General Brown is going to bow to him and definitely says he has the power and will call Brown on the carpet...
...major executive without an executive post when he went on Katy's board of directors last year. With him went William Marcus Greve, onetime president of New York Investors, Inc., now in receivership, who is under indictment for using the mails to defraud. Arthur Atwood Ballantine, President Hoover's able Undersecretary of the Treasury, was elected a director of New York Life Insurance Co. Harvard-graduated, an expert on taxation, he remained at the Treasury at the request of President Roosevelt until last May, backstopped Secretary Woodin in the opening months of the New Deal...
...East St. Louis, Ill. Harry Radel was watching a motion picture when a stranger rose up near him, struck him on the head with a club. Said the stranger to the police: "That fellow looked like Hoover...
...source of deepest pleasure that at last a legitimate crime can figure as one of the episodes of this column. The crime in question, perpetrated against a denizen of the Dunster House, is almost worthy of the attentions of the Federal Government's J. Edgar Hoover and his crack band of college trained sleuths. The fact that it is still shrouded in mystery can detract little from the story itself...