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...decorations as the Navy's only World War I ace (four sure kills), he was elected to the Ohio legislature at 27, won a second term on a barnstorming campaign in his own plane. With the sponsorship of an old aviator friend who knew his way around the Hoover Administration, ex-Ace Ingalls was made Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aeronautics in 1929, just six weeks after his 30th birthday...
Although Maass has given up working in the Government, he has served on such groups as the Hoover Commission Task Force on National Resources--which endorsed his stand on the Corps--and served as a consultant to various government agencies. At present he is a consultant to the Secretary of Interior...
...clean-living folk hero, the Ranger has been applauded by Boy Scout councils, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, parent-teachers' associations, and such notables as Vice President Alben Barkley, U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, J. Edgar Hoover ("The Lone Ranger is one of the greatest forces for juvenile good in the country"), and Bernard Baruch ("The same thrill I got as a boy reading Oliver Optic and Horatio Alger"). Creator Trendle offers his own recipe for the show's long life: "It is just plain, good, healthy American entertainment which will not offend anyone, because there...
...dynamic and clear-cut, to win the peace and gain expanding freedom for ourselves and for others." To help him accomplish his goals, said Stassen, he intended to call on such men as Douglas MacArthur (for Western Pacific problems), Bernard Baruch (for economics), Dwight Eisenhower (for Western Europe), Herbert Hoover (for Government reorganization). Ralph Bunche (for the United Nations), Democrats Jim Farley and Senator Harry Byrd (for liaison with the Democrats...
Violent Objections. To readers of the seven other papers in Hoiles's string* of small-city dailies, such crackpot cerebrations have come to be part of the routine grist from the Hoiles mill, to be taken with the news. Among other Hoiles convictions: Herbert Hoover and the National Association of Manufacturers are too leftish, churches are socialistic, majority rule should be abolished, and so should aid to Europe, all involuntary taxes, and unions. Most of his readers have no choice but to read Hoiles papers; in nine of the ten cities, there is no competition. But there have been...