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...become almost international. London's grave Economist thought that Mr. Truman had been acting like "a fox terrier at bay, rather than a President guiding his nation through a crisis." Washington was shaking its head over Truman's latest tart remarks-directed this time against ex-President Hoover, whom he had invited to join in the appeal for grain for India. As he was leaving, Hoover told Truman: "I'm going to make a radio speech and criticize your foreign policy again." Snapped Truman: "You go ahead and say whatever you want to. It will...
...Picked up a telephone and called Herbert Hoover in New York. "Mr. President, this is Harry Truman," said Harry Truman. He asked him (and Hoover agreed) to lend his prestige in appealing for the grain needed by famine-threatened India (TIME, Feb. 12). This week Truman formally asked Congress for authority to ship India the 2,000,000 tons of grain...
...Motion Defeated." In the confusion, Merson's men introduced the same resolution the post had passed last year-approving the Hoover report but opposing its veterans' provisions. The oldtimers were sure that anything Merson was for they were against. Before they knew what was happening, they had voted the resolution down thunderingly. "Motion defeated," screamed Post Commander Lacey in triumph, ringing his bell. Then his secretary whispered in his ear. Lacey's face fell. "Comrades," he shouted in horror, "we have just gone against the national e-dict...
Last year's top man, Harry Truman, ran third. Next in order: Winston Churchill, Herbert Hoover, Senator Robert A. Taft, Bernard Baruch, Pope Pius XII, Dr. Ralph Bunche, Thomas E. Dewey. In Manhattan, the Associated American Artists offered "one of tomorrow's most treasured heirlooms . . . worthy of an honored place in your home or office": ten-inch, bronze-colored reproductions of Sculptor Jo Davidson's bust of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Price...
Pink-faced and wiry, with a sculptor's heavy hands, Kallio specializes in highly dramatic likenesses. Petrified history, not self-expression, is his province, and he commands it well. Last week he had completed a bust of Herbert Hoover, was rounding out his portraits of Alben Barkley ("a very kind man"); Warren Austin ("he lives by what he says"), and John L. Lewis ("a very strong...