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Rallying Point. The attacker was ex-President Herbert Hoover. Unlike Dulles, he loaded a qualified endorsement of ERP with objections that would destroy the plan piecemeal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Help from Abroad | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...questioned the size of the appropriation. In the first 15 months, said Hoover, U.S. grants for food and other goods "essential to maintain life" should not exceed $3 billion, should include relief for China, Korea and Japan as well as Europe. Steel and capital goods should be shipped only on a straight loan basis. No money should be given for purchases in other nations; Latin American nations, for instance, should grant their own credits to Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Help from Abroad | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...Then Hoover struck right at the heart of the plan. He would limit ERP strictly to a 15-months proposition. Said he: "Even a moral commitment to a four-year program is unwise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Help from Abroad | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

Critical professorial eyes, including those of John M. Gaus, professor of Government, will be turned on federal agricultural activities this week as a committee under Herbert Hoover investigates various federal executive branches...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gaus Will Examine Agriculture Bureau | 1/20/1948 | See Source »

...lights gave him a wire-recorder (to record his balladry); the other in his native Galesburg, Ill., where Knox College gave him a cake and Sandburg gave an address. The Lincoln man cleared up a point about himself: "My father was . . . a Republican. I voted for Eugene Debs and Hoover, and if Eisenhower is nominated will vote for him. I am an independent or maybe a mugwump...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

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