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...indicated, time after time, that it was ready and willing to foot much of the bill in Western Europe. But last week Herbert Hoover added his voice to those who insisted that Western Europe had to supply energy and urgency of its own. "We should be willing to aid," said Hoover over a nationwide radio network, "but if Western Europe wants defense from the Communist tide, they must do most of it themselves and do it fast . . . We should say, and at once, that we shall provide no more money until a definitely united and sufficient European army...
...short adventure lasted nearly two decades of U.S. peace, depression and total war, for the best years of Henry Stimson's life were still ahead of him. He was to become first Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, then-at 72-Franklin Roosevelt's gruff, wise and trusted wartime Secretary of War. Only last week did the long voyage come to an end. At 83, Elder Statesman Henry Stimson died of a heart attack at Highhold, his rolling, 123-acre estate on Long Island...
Thomas H. Eliot '28, director of the Massachusetts "Little Hoover Commission," will take over Government 140a, the course on state government taught by A. Chester Hanford, professor of Government, before he became...
Last February Eliot was involved in a newspaper attack upon the Little Hoover Commission by W. E. Mullins of the Boston Herald, although Mullins concentrated mostly on another member, Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government...
...Marines got six pairs apiece. Not until two years ago did the Army learn that the Marines issued only three pairs -and that many an Army recruit threw at least three of his six pairs away. Faced with this blunt fact, the Army forthwith halved its issue. Said the Hoover Commission: "The military services are far too prodigal with Government funds...