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Lapham professed little knowledge of China (he has been there twice), but Hoffman was chiefly impressed with his administrative talents. He had been with Herbert Hoover's American Relief Administration after World War I, was called to Washington on the eve of World War II to serve on the National Defense Mediation Board, later on the War Labor Board. As mayor, he had put San Francisco's needs ahead of politics, had rammed through city purchase (for $7,500,000) of the Market Street Railway. He had been president, later board chairman, of the American-Hawaiian Steamship...
...President was showing his mulishness. Congress was acting like other Congresses. In the final weeks of the Hoover administration, Democrats had sat on scores of Republican nominations. But playing politics with postmasters was one thing, playing politics with the nation's defense program was another. Both President and Congress were disturbing the peace and continuity of administration on which AEC and its contractors depend...
...drawing disgruntled Southern Democrats into his well-organized G.O.P. camp, he was able to harry the Roosevelt Administration and kill many a New Deal bill. Wrote the late Columnist Raymond Clapper: "Martin has received the reluctant but spectacular tribute of being the first Republican since the middle of the Hoover Administration to put the fear of God into the Democratic leadership...
...called a handful of others, all former Government administrators: Dr. Calvin Hoover, dean of the Graduate School of Duke University; Richard Bissell, professor of economics at M.I.T.; Dr. Edward Mason, professor of economics at Harvard; Wayne Chatfield Taylor, onetime president of the Export-Import Bank. They said they would rally around. That was Wednesday morning. Bellboys were bringing so many telegrams to Hoffman's ninth floor Statler suite, costing Hoffman so many quarter tips, that he finally ordered all wires held at the desk until they could be brought up in bundles...
Thursday morning at 7, he breakfasted with Moore and Wayne Taylor. Calvin Hoover arrived. A blonde secretary arrived. ECA began to hum. Hoffman rushed off to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Robert Lovett, met Moore and the others later in the old State Department building, where they took possession of four high-ceilinged rooms which had once been the suite of General John Pershing...