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...appointment as a $1-a-year special assistant to Herbert Hoover's Secretary of Labor William N. Doak (after a few months it turned into a $9,000 job). His sponsor: ex-Congressman Samuel Dickstein, now a New York City judge. Garsson's chief interest: high-salaried alien cinema stars who might be proved to be in the country illegally. Among his interests: Gilbert Roland, Anna Sten, the Marquis Henri de la Falaise, Maureen O'Sullivan, John Farrow...
Drayton was the Thoroughbred Racing Associations' second choice for his job, created to root out postwar racing's "undesirable elements." The T.R.A. offered the post first to J. Edgar Hoover, followed his advice when he recommended his onetime assistant, laconic, cigar-smoking Spencer Drayton, who had helped capture the Nazi saboteurs who landed on Long Island in June, 1942. Drayton has hired practically no one but ex-FBI men as investigators. Their chief trouble so far: baseless "tips" from people who have bet on the wrong horse. Even so, Drayton thinks his job is valuable. Says...
Roger wistfully returned to the East Coast, went to Harvard, married Helen Abbott from Brooklyn and dreamed of the West. He worked in his family's several large shipping firms, served as a captain of infantry in World War I, suffered a gassing and temporary blindness, served on Hoover's Food Board. Uncle George died. Five years later Roger Lapham became president of A-H and moved permanently to the city he had always dreamed about...
...Combined Food Board arranged for the food. But, said Mr. Hoover, the people of the U.S., Canada, Australia and Argentina were the ones who deserved the credit; they sent the food, 10,000,000 tons of it, overseas in four months. Canada alone sent one-fifth...
When the world food shortage became acutely apparent four months ago, said he, there was an eleven-million-ton gap between the amount of food available for hungry nations and the amount needed to keep them alive. That gap, said Herbert Hoover, has now been closed...