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With this succinct phrase, the Young Republican Club last night opened the first of several election contests. They offer a complete biography of Herbert Hoover for the most violent phrase of 12 words or less vilifying the GOP--if they feel it is "applicable to the party." Club officers also promised to turn the winning remark over to the President for use in his forthcoming Boston speech...
That was the sort of extreme statement -like Herbert Hoover's remark about grass growing in the streets-which might bounce back and make Candidate Truman regret that he had ever said...
Because he was a corporation lawyer, he was attacked by a vehement Senate minority and by liberals for his "fixed, set, intolerant mentality" when Herbert Hoover appointed him Chief Justice...
...papers are all open shop), majority rule ("The majority can't give my consent to anything"), progressive, income taxes ("nothing but socialism"), public education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during the war, he campaigned to give U.S. Japanese...
...filled Harrison's place with a second public figure-former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts, 73. He had graduated from the Pennsylvania law school summa cum laude in 1898, taught on its faculty until 1918, won fame as a prosecutor during the Teapot Dome scandals. On Hoover's Supreme Court, he had found himself a liberal dissenter; on Roosevelt's, the most outspoken of the conservatives. Since retirement, he has spent much of his time plugging for Clarence Streit's world federation. A genial, scholarly man, who relaxes by reading Greek and Latin...