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From the Dead. The sons of an Irish miner, Patrick and William Hurley were born in the bedraggled mining town of Lehigh, Okla., then part of the Choctaw nation. Pat had got himself a college education, launched a career that made him a millionaire, Secretary of War under Herbert Hoover, roving ambassador extraordinary for Franklin Roosevelt. Bill, two years younger, left home in 1903 at 18. In 1911, some papers bearing Bill's name were found in the raincoat of a man killed near Mexico City. They decided Bill was dead...
Democrat Garner's kudos went to a Republican. Garner's judgment on Herbert Hoover: "[He] is the wisest statesman on world affairs in America...
...handicapped by Mr. Truman's understandable but unhelpful desire to keep all details of his personal life private. Ross went to high school with the President, became chief of the Washington Bureau of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, once won a Pulitzer prize for his stories on the Hoover depression...
...years, many old TIME readers remember its story on the death and funeral of Calvin Coolidge. Written by John Shaw Billings (then National Affairs editor, now editorial director), the story told simply and very clearly how the news of his death came to the Senate, the House, President Hoover, and to Mrs. Aurora Pierce, "longtime Coolidge housekeeper" at Plymouth, Vt. She "heard a tap on the homestead window. Allen Brown, a neighbor, was outside. She raised the sash to hear him say: 'Calvin's dead, Aurora.' " TIME told how the stockmarket, shocked, had fallen and then "closed...
Died. Robert Patterson Lament,* 80, Secretary of Commerce under Hoover (1929-32); after long illness; in Manhattan. Lamont (he resigned over 20 major directorships when he went to Washington) always insisted that prosperity was "just around the corner"; as president of the American Iron & Steel Institute for 13 months (August 1932-September 1933), he bucked the New Deal tide, finally quit, inveighing against the idea of government in industry: "No one knows...