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JOHN EDGAR HOOVER Director...
...TIME'S excerpts from this political fantasy did the original (and hence G-Man Hoover) an injustice; for botching the job (and murdering the humor), TIME'S sincere apologies to Mr. Hoover...
...legislative confusion that confounded Wood-row Wilson in 1918 and Herbert Hoover in 1930 may appear again--while the United States writhes in another world crisis--when the votes of next Tuesday's election are tabulated and the Eightieth Congress is on its way to Washington. Both the pages of history and the opinions of "political experts" portend a loss of Democratic power. But should scattered defeats become a national rout, both the voting records of Republican congressmen and the plans of G.O.P. leaders augur two years of stalemate and a future of reaction...
...Boss's Knee. In the 1932 Republican Convention, when the Hoover crowd was trying to jam through the vice-presidential nomination of Charlie Curtis, "a voice from the floor shouted in answer to the roll call: "Pennsylvania casts 75 votes for General Edward Martin." The vote, as everyone knew, was just a maneuver. Pennsylvania came around to Curtis when the Pennsylvania bosses got what they wanted frolri the National Committee. But it gave Ed Martin his first brief and tentative spin into the national scene...
This was Central High in the days of the Charleston and Button Up Your Overcoat, the days of goldfish swallowing, cloche hats, Herbert Hoover's first presidential campaign, rolled stockings...