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...Herbert Hoover was perfectly qualified to continue this style of government, but he became a casualty of the Depression. The groups that had gone along with the G.O.P. as long as there was prosperity broke away to vote for Franklin Roosevelt in 1932. Blacks, Jews and other urban ethnic groups had been reliably Republican before the Depression; Roosevelt's appeal and his social programs made them solidly Democratic. Unable to prevent F.D.R. from being elected to four terms, the Republicans seemed to be retired into permanent opposition. The G.O.P. split into two groups?liberal internationalists and conservative isolationists, a division...
Fitch retired in 1928, but A. & F.'s fame as a purveyor of sporting goods to the rich and famous had become widespread. The store outfitted Theodore Roosevelt for safaris, Admiral Richard E. Byrd for his expedition to Antarctica. Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfers Woodrow Wilson and Dwight Eisenhower and all-round author-out-doorsman Ernest Hemingway also shopped there. Its stock of firearms and tackle equipment was among the world's largest and finest, and its aloof sales staff was made up of technical experts in A. & F.'s wares. A. & F.'s Manhattan store...
...probing "black-bag jobs"-burglaries -conducted by FBI agents over the past five years. Meanwhile, FBI Director Clarence Kelley has started cleaning house. He fired Associate Director Nicholas P. Callahan, 62, the bureau's No. 2 executive, two weeks ago. During the last 13 years of the Hoover era, Callahan supervised both the "confidential fund" and the FBI Recreation Association treasury. "No one has said that I profited personally," Callahan declared. According to his defenders, he only carried out Hoover's orders...
...Chicago office for the past three years, Held is highly regarded by associates. Perhaps most important to Kelley, Held has spent most of his 35 years as an agent in the field, far from the snake pit that was the FBI's Washington headquarters during the Hoover years...
...formulating his economic policies, Reagan has relied heavily on the advice of Martin Anderson, who took a leave from his post as senior fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution to join Reagan's campaign full time at the start of the year (after the $90 billion proposal had been made). Anderson, who will turn 40 next week, served as the personal deputy of Arthur Burns, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, when Burns was a White House Counsellor to President Nixon. Reagan has also consulted some well-known economists, including Hendrik Houthakker of Harvard, a former member...