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...speaker on the night before the balloting begins, Herbert Hoover, who is assumed to be for Taft...
Died. William Harold Hoover, 63, president (since 1949) of Anaconda Copper Mining Co., the world's largest copper producer, who last year launched Anaconda into the aluminum business, making it fourth in the field (after Alcoa, Reynolds, Kaiser); of cancer; in Butte, Mont...
...reference to the group's decisions, Schlesinger said yesterday, 'Well, Hoover did it at Stanford University, and Roosevelt did it with Hyde Park, and I think future presidents will want to go along on their precedents...
...stood an unsavory chorus of such figures as Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, Attorney General Harry Daugherty and other Republicans implicated in the Teapot Dome scandal. Next to the Depression itself, a Kirby cartoon ("Two Chickens in Every Garage") did as much as anything to defeat Herbert Hoover in 1932. After Repeal, which Kirby did as much as any man to bring about, he showed Mr. Dry being lugged off to the graveyard, mourned by a rumrunner, a bootlegger, a racketeer and a speakeasy proprietor. "I was almost sorry to see him go," said Kirby. "I was almost getting...
...story of his twelve years in Washington get in the way of statistical detail, but occasionally a light note slips in, e.g., the time that hornyhanded Senator Norbeck of South Dakota, in the midst of a powerful political delivery at dinner, placed his ice cream on one of Mrs. Hoover's prized Belgian lace doilies and gulped down doily and all. But in the four presidential years, which plunged, only a few months after Inauguration Day, into the opaque depths of the Great Depression, there was a minimum of things to laugh about. Still, nothing in those days...