Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond Robins who wandered off among the mountains of North Carolina while en route to visit President Hoover (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932, et seq.). In Russia, where the Colonel headed a U. S. Red Cross mission in bloody 1917 and which he revisited on Red May Day 1933, Raymond Robins is known as a man of phenomenal memory, able to recall in minute detail his conversations with Nikolai Lenin...
...could get an official okay on the transaction. He actually bought the Loew shares on the strength of a reported verbal agreement between one William Thompson, of the Attorney General's staff, and Saul E. Rogers, Fox lawyer. Then the Coolidge Administration ended, the Hoover Administration began and-as Mr. Fox put it last week- "a gentleman from somewhere in the Minnesotas" became the new Attorney General...
...alarmed about all this."* Next Mr. Fox talked to Claudius Hart Huston, then Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Huston said he would look into the matter, but while he was looking Mr. Fox became impatient. So he took his troubles to none other than Herbert Hoover, lunching at the White House with the President...
Said Mr. Fox: "I told him . . . that I had made this commitment of all these millions of dollars and that I was in a terrible place and wouldn't he please adjust the matter for me." Whereupon Mr. Hoover referred Mr. Fox back to the Attorney General...
Today, Mr. Fox, Mr. Wiggin and Mr. Hoover have the common bond of being ex-presidents and Mr. Dodge is an ex-vice president. Harley Clarke's General Theatres Equipment company is in a receivership and so is Fox Theatres. Loew's, Inc. (and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), again independent, remain solvent and prosperous, having made a profit of $4,034,000 for the year ending Aug. 31, 1933. But the disputed 660,000 shares of Loew's. Inc. (the majority holdings bought by Mr. Fox) have been segregated by the U. S. Government. They may be sold...