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...Herbert Hoover Jr., Under Secretary of State Eng.D...
...season rolled on as the football team beat Lehigh, 39 to 0. Hoover won and racoon coats went up to a "preposterous" $600. Then on Friday, Nov. 9, Edward S. Harkness '97 gave three million dollars to the college, which President Lowell said would be used to build two new houses for upperclassmen. The reason--"to develop the unique culture of the individual." The college waited and wondered. The football season was a success as Dave Guarnaccia '29 and French led the Crimson to a 17-0 victory over Yale...
Political Career: At 18, in 1928, headed the Kansas State College Republican organization for Herbert Hoover, rose through the Young Republican organization to become state chairman, later campaign secretary for Kansas' Republican Presidential Nominee Alf Landon. Moved from Kansas to Nebraska in 1937 to take over the Hastings Tribune (and subsequently to control, with his brother Richard, seven other dailies and two weeklies in Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota and Wyoming and the semimonthly Western Farm Life magazine in Denver, plus three radio stations in Nebraska and Kansas). Elected to Nebraska's Unicameral Legislature for two terms...
...checkered career as international intriguer back to the Boer War (1899-1902). A cool, cunning poseur, he signed his reports to Germany with a rubber-stamp cat's paw, claimed to have plotted the sinking (1916) of Lord Kitchener's cruiser Hampshire. Chief G-man J. Edgar Hoover called his concerted FBI swoop (in 1941) on Duquesne's New York City mob the greatest spy roundup in U.S. history...
...Already the effects are being felt in the towns and cities that draw their major support from farm families . . . You good people here in Iowa know that very well. You know that a nationwide depression can be born on the farm under Eisenhower just as well as under Herbert Hoover . . . Are you going to throw the Republicans out now or are you going to give them four more years to finish busting the farmers...