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...feeling of identification between the people and the President was part of a long trend. Statesmanship aside, people and President have been growing closer for a generation-unbuttoned Harding more than Wilson; buttoned, homespun Coolidge more than Harding; Hoover, the self-made great engineer in a day when almost every man dreamed he was an engineer, more than Coolidge; Roosevelt, at his fireside, more than Hoover; plain Harry Truman more than Roosevelt; and Eisenhower, America's idealistic, practical, slightly nasal voice, more than Truman. Was this trend, as John Adams would have suspected, the inevitable result of the leveling...
...Ralph." Next came the tough celestial navigation tests, a dog-legged, 891-mile course from Butte to the Hoover Dam. Only the stars could be used to fix position. At least five minutes ahead of time, the observer was required to announce his estimated time of arrival at Hoover Dam. Joe Holguin's E.T.A. was 10:57:54. When the 54th second of the 57th minute ticked past, the City of Merced was two miles from Hoover...
From Hunter to Sodom. On the first of the book's 565 pages, Hoover is still President, Marjorie is 17, and the Morgenstern family has just made the great social leap from the Bronx Park East to Manhattan's Central Park West. Marjorie is a blue-eyed, brown-haired beauty who can scarcely see past her next prom date. But eagle-eyed Mama Morgenstern is already shopping in the marriage mart...
Died. Charles P. Berkey, 88, topflight U.S. geologist, Columbia University's Newberry professor emeritus of geology since 1941, expert consultant in the building of Hoover and Grand Coulee Dams and of Manhattan bridges and tunnels, chief geologist in the 1925 Gobi expedition of the American Museum of Natural History; in Palisade...
...Sapio's reactions to his problem is to bear down on the Italians around him. An aide says: "If an Italian name comes up at the Hall for a prominent public job, Carmine goes into his background with as much thoroughness as J. Edgar Hoover, a thing he never does with an Irishman or a Jew." De Sapio can also set a personal example. His present job as Secretary of State pays him $17,000 a year, the most he has ever made, and never once in his career has there been any evidence that he makes money from...