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...GLENN E. HOOVER...
Into the Red. Coolidge, too, had saved money in the White House. But in the final year of the Hoover Administration, Congress made all governmental salaries, including the President's, taxable. By 1944 taxes took more than half of the President's salary. In his twelve years in the White House, Franklin Roosevelt never got out of the red, but he had his own and his mother's fortune to fall back...
...Raise. Herbert Hoover, one of the hardest pluggers for a raise for Harry Truman, declared that the President was lucky if he had enough left out of his salary for cigarette money (Truman doesn't smoke). Actually, Truman told friends, after he pays his $30,000 income tax, he averages about $80 a week take-home...
Married. Herbert Hoover III, 21, Menlo Junior College (Calif.) student, grandson of the 31st President of the U.S., son of Geophysicist Herbert Jr.; and Meredith McGilvray, 21, a childhood sweetheart, now a Stanford University Coed; in Virginia City...
What a nice picture of Herbert Hoover . . . Since he has stopped wearing those old high collars he looks more like "Cactus Jack" Garner all the time...