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...Crime is at a minimum in Cambridge," Chief of Police Patrick F. Ready said yesterday, despite reports from FBI head J. Edgar Hoover that major criminal offenses throughout the nation rose 5.1 percent from...
According to Hoover's annual "Uniform Crime Reports," urban areas showed a 5.2 percent rise in major offenses, while rural districts climbed 5 percent. An increase of 253 serious offenses a day brought the number of major crimes committed in an average...
Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover knows just how the Italians feel about radio (see above). At a dinner in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria honoring his boyhood friend, Lee De Forest, whose three-element tube made radio possible, Hoover lamented that the invention had also made possible the broadcasting of "the worst music on earth-and political speeches." Said the ex-President: "Perhaps the worst of his results is the singing commercial . . . And then there is the fellow who cannot sponsor a program without periodic interruption of huckster chatter into the midst of a great drama." Hoover urged De Forest...
...election boils down to a race between a Hoover-type Republican and a polecat, the race will be close but you can bet on the polecat . . . The Republicans will find victory only if they present to the people a liberal humanitarian, someone who will let the public know they have a friend...
...sense, her husband's election to the presidency was a triumph for her-after his attack of polio his mother had done everything in her power to keep poor Franklin at home by her side in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. But Usher Ike Hoover recalled Eleanor Roosevelt's first day in the White House-he discovered her hard at work tugging furniture into new positions, as if by that housewife's gesture she could make a home out of the halls in which Lincoln had lived and a million tourists had wandered...