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...first of his race ever sent by Northern voters to the House of Representatives*(three-term Congressman from Chicago's "Black Belt," 1929-35); of a kidney ailment; in Chicago. In Washington he worked unceasingly for a national anti-lynching law. His wife and Mrs. Herbert Hoover scandalized the South when the First Lady received her at a White House tea; shortly thereafter Alabama's late Senator "Tom-Tom" Heflin calculated that to "punch De Priest in the nose" would be worth at least 50,000 votes when Heflin ran for reelection...
Dean Berry of the Harvard Medical School yesterday explained that at least $40,000,000 more a year is needed to cover medical schools' operating expenses at top efficiency and at current enrollment levels. Former President Herbert Hoover, honorary chairman, termed the present system "woefully inadequate for national defenses...
...party's hesitation and lack of skill is not its only trouble. Its membership in the past year has fallen from 54,174 to 43,217, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reported to Congress. But Hoover still fears that the Communist menace is stronger and more dangerous than the Nazi fifth column in the U.S. during World War II. For every card-carrying Commie, Hoover guessed, there are ten fellow travelers who would help the party when called. About 14,000 of the most active Reds have been bird-banded and marked down for quick arrest in the event...
...inconsistency on Korean policy. Coming from Robert Taft, the charge was doubly ironic. The Administration's policy of limiting the Korean war has been consistent from the beginning; Taft's record for the same period is a shameful mixture of zig-zag reasoning and equivocation. When ex-President Hoover announced his "Western Gibraltar" policy last January, Republican Policy Chairman Taft was quick to join him under the bed. Taft opposed the appointment of General Eisenhower; he also backed the Wherry "manifesto" against sending troops to Europe because the presence of American soldiers might incite the Russians. This started the first...
...wolves of Wall Street," New York's "Roman-Tammany system," and Catholicism,* which he represented as out to i) get his scalp, 2) plunge the U.S. into war with Mexico. In 1928, rather than support Catholic Al Smith for the presidency, Heflin bolted the Democratic Party, stumped for Hoover, was defeated two years later. His proudest achievement: sponsoring the bill legalizing Mother...