Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago the titular head of the Republican Party, Herbert Hoover, not daring to risk defeat in his home state, but bent on having at least a strong voice in the convention, rallied a few potent cronies of the State's Republican machine and entered a delegation of convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam...
...takes two sides to make an issue, and in the California campaign which followed, Alf M. Landon was definitely not an issue. Puffed by Hearstpapers, he got courteous treatment, many a kind word from Hoover supporters. Their cry: Is William Randolph Hearst, a New York Democrat, to become master of California Republicanism? When California Republicans marched to the polls last week and said "no" by 344,000 votes to 256,000, that verdict was almost universally interpreted as a thoroughgoing rebuff to William Randolph Hearst and Frank F. Merriam...
Friends & Foes. Untraveled Alf Landon has no such multitude of friends throughout the land as Franklin Roosevelt had cultivated before 1932. By the same token, he has few enemies. Candidate Herbert Hoover is reputed to have privately called Candidate Landon "wishy-washy" and "smeared with oil." Candidate Frank Knox has publicly declared Alf Landon a man after his own mind, whom he would gladly support in a Presidential campaign. Candidate William E. Borah last week announced: "If Mr. Knox or Mr. Landon comes to the Cleveland convention with a fair expression of the public that he is their choice...
Each one of the 603 agents and accountants of the Federal Bureau of Investigation is supposed to be ready day or night to "put his old clothes on'' (i.e., go out on a raid). John Edgar Hoover had been in the service 21 years when, fortnight ago, for the first time he put on his old clothes (TIME, May 11). When he took them off ten days later, the Bureau had closed all the 62 kidnapping cases undertaken since the passage of the Lindbergh...
...sooner had he personally directed the raid in which murderous Alvin ("Old Creepy'') Karpis was seized than Director Hoover flew the scrawny captive to St. Paul, left him to be tried for the $100,000 kidnapping of Brewer William Hamm, hurried back to Washington. Last week Director Hoover swooped down on Toledo, Ohio, led a dozen agents to an apartment house at dawn, captured Karpis' fellow gangster, crippled Harry Campbell...