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...Herbert Hoover Jr., 44, a successful California geophysicist, was awarded Patent 2430983 for a "seismic amplifying system providing, in geophysical prospecting, for the controlled variation of seismic wave sensitivity during recording...
Ever since Herbert Hoover retired from presidential business cycle prognostication to private life and Sunday supplement interviews, a lot of people including Herbert Hoover have been wondering why all this talent can't be put to better use. This issue will crystallize in the next session of Congress where an already drafted bill will be offered guaranteeing Hoover a steady job. The legislation cannot be assailed on party bias, however, because it would also keep Harry Truman out of haberdashery and on the floor of the Senate for good in the event of defeat...
Chairman Thomas hastily assured him that that point was of no interest.* What about Communists in the Guild? They were just a noisy, overrated minority, said Lavery. As for outlawing the party, he agreed with the FBI's boss J. Edgar Hoover: driving the Reds underground would only make them harder to find. The positive way to handle the problem, he thought, was to promote American ideals...
Died. Arthur Mastick Hyde, 70, tart-tongued Secretary of Agriculture under Hoover (1929-33), second Republican Governor of Missouri (1921-25), lifelong Prohibitionist; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...assured mixture of Walter Winchell and the late Alexander Woollcott. He let his listeners in on his random thoughts, a bit of philosophy, some gossip. He did a little crusading for higher salaries for teachers. He told a yarn about World's Fair days, when J. Edgar Hoover put the finger on a gangster who was bothering Billy. He bemoaned all the big-time stars that he has been dope enough to pass...