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...group decisions. In 1939, when 34-year-old Republican Flemming was named by President Roosevelt to the Commission, he became the second youngest member in U.S. history (younger: 30-year-old Teddy Roosevelt). Flemming also served on the War Manpower Commission, is now a member of the new Hoover Commission (set up by Congress to study the executive branch). At Ohio Wesleyan, President Flemming plans to teach a course in political science, hopes to get more "first-rate" graduates to go into politics...
...UNKNOWN EX-PRESIDENT: A PORTRAIT OF HERBERT HOOVER (340 pp.)- Eugene Lyons-Doubleday...
...this embarrassingly worshipful biography, Eugene Lyons has set out to portray "the warm, whimsical, and tender Hoover . . . the very human and deeply humane Quaker behind the solemn façade." With a convert's zeal, rightish Political Journalist Lyons, a onetime fellow traveler, also tries to give a more favorable version of Hoover's administration. It is a hard, loving, earnest try-but it doesn't quite come...
...their own defense, Republicans pointed out that in 1932 a Democratic Congress had ignored 1,727 of Herbert Hoover's 2,903 appointees. But that was in a lame-duck session after Hoover had already been defeated for reelection. With President Truman already hard-pressed to find good men for Government jobs, the Republican decision meant that he would find it even harder to fill interim vacancies for the next eight months...
...GLENN E. HOOVER Oakland, Calif...