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Court of Appeals. Hagerty not only beat the opposition at conventions, but became famed for other beats. He was the first reporter to learn of Jimmy Walker's resignation as mayor of New York. His election predictions have been uncannily accurate. In 1928 he said Hoover would carry New York by 100,000 votes, and Hoover did it by 103,481. The same year, he predicted that Roosevelt would win over Alfred Ottinger for governor of New York by "nothing," and F.D.R. squeezed in. In 1946 he called the majority by which Ives beat Lehman in the N.Y. senate...
...Herbert C. Hoover . . . The opponent of every Democrat for the past 24 years...
...Catholic Conference on Industrial Problems, goes to Mass every morning even when he is traveling, does not swear, drink or smoke. He has three sons, four grandchildren, lives with his wife in suburban Chevy Chase, Md. The first Secretary of Labor drawn from labor's ranks since Herbert Hoover's Railroader Bill Doak, he favors unification of the A.F.L. and C.I.O., thinks the Taft-Hartley law can "be amended to satisfy labor and no doubt satisfy employers as well." His appointment, said he, came as a "complete surprise." Reason: he is a Democrat, voted...
...legal brief, due for debate in the 60-nation General Assembly, was enhanced by the international make-up of its composers. The three: William DeWitt Mitchell of the U.S., attorney general under President Hoover; Sir Edwin Herbert of Great Britain, prominent London lawyer and wartime director of telegraph and postal censorship; Paul Veldekens of Belgium, law professor and president of the Belgian Supreme Court Defense Lawyers...
Veterans' Affairs. Massachusetts' Edith Nourse Rogers, a member of Congress since 1925, who will be the only woman to head a committee. A tireless friend of the veteran, she was the President's special representative for care of disabled veterans under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover...