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That just about wound up the show, except for a few forthright and patriotic remarks from J. Edgar Hoover. The Kefauver committee had spent eleven months on the trail of the U.S. underworld, and left behind three sheriffs fired, at least a dozen police officials demoted or indicted, scores of damaged reputations. Its methods had created misgivings, as all congressional investigations do: in effect, trying witnesses who are not formally charged with any crime, using loose rules of evidence and few of the protective procedures of a judicial body. And it had raised a new problem: the propriety of doing...
...depression victims, led some 10,000 of them (in 1,000 cars and trucks) in a protest march on Washington in January 1932; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Pittsburgh. On the arrival of "Cox's Army"* in Washington, Father Cox had a 20-minute chat with President Hoover (who gave "intense sympathy"), went on to form his short-lived Jobless Party, was briefly its candidate for President, gave up to support Candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Sorokin admitted that his plan for peace might not be practicable. "If not," he continued, "all the easy palliatives of Hoover and Taft lead to full-scale destruction. It is better to prepare for full war than subscribe to these...
MacLeish commented that the important question at present is "how much are we going to accept our responsibilities now that the debate is over?" He added that "Mr. Hoover holds as much ground as he did in the beginning of the debate: none...
...primary objections to Hoover's isolationist theories are not military, MacLeish said. "These can be disposed of in two sentences." What is important is that "temperamentally, we must follow our convictions. We cannot cower in cellars...