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...generation of Republicans through the 1870s, '80s and '90s "waved the bloody shirt" and ran for office against Jefferson Davis, so a generation of Democrats through the 1930s and '40s have waved the Great Depression and run for office against Warren Harding, Andrew Mellon and Herbert Hoover. The Democrats' story was that they killed the dragon in 1932 (although it was so long adying that some economic pathologists say it really expired of arteriosclerosis and Pearl Harbor). The Democrats had been paid four times over for their feat, and the Amalgamated Dragonkillers (C.I.O.) could...
Civil Service status for the 64 U.S. Collectors of Internal Revenue was urged three years ago by Herbert Hoover's commission on reorganizing the Federal Government. But the collectorships are among the juiciest patronage plums in politics, and Old Pol Harry Truman ignored the Hoover recommendation. Then, last year, scandal after scandal rocked the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...replanting of the Tree of Life. Mosig calls first upon the 225 elect whom he subdivides into the Managers, the Influencers, and the Scientists. Among these are Douglas MacArthur, Henry Luce, Pandit Nehru, Hirohito, Joseph Stalin, Mao Tse-tung, Plus XII, General Ridgway, Eddie Rickenbacker, J. Edgar Hoover, King Farouk, Walt Disney, Greta Garbo, Evita Peron, Dashiell Hammett, and Dorothy Thompson. He claims that he sent a copy of his pamphlet to each one of these...
Entitled "The Welfare State and the National Welfare," the volume is a collection of essays and addresses by such outstanding Americans as Bernard Baruch, Vannevar Bush, Harry F. Byrd, John Foster Dulles, and Herbert Hoover. It is especially notable however, because it includes several of General Eisenhower's expressions on his political thought...
Some are "tactical reactionaries," he said and mentioned Senator Capehart, Congressman Martin, and ex-president Herbert Hoover. "Taft is on the borderline of reaction." Liberals in the party include Senators Morse, Ailken, Lodge, and Tobey. "I am a liberal Republican," he affirms...