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...Cairo, after a six-weeks survey of 17 European countries, Herbert Hoover went to a microphone to broadcast to his fellow countrymen...
Said Herbert Hoover...
...alarm, the President sent his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, abroad to dramatize the crisis. To prod the public and pressure the farmer, he appointed the Famine Emergency Committee, put crack Administrator Chester Davis at its head. Fiorello LaGuardia bounded onto the scene as director general of UNRRA, to succeed the tired and ailing Lehman. Cried LaGuardia, as he prodded the snail-paced Combined Food Board: "I am going to get wheat, or I am going to tell the world why not! . . . I am not going around like Evangeline Booth with a tambourine in my hand...
Cutting through the indecision of the past months, President Truman has issued a clear call for action to alleviate Europe's food crisis. For the observer who has watched with increasing frustration the various emergency meetings, the extended world jaunt of Herbert Hoover, and the utter failure to act, this comes as a welcome appeal. For the member of the University it is more than an appeal, it is a challenge to express in deed his concepts of idealism...
...been first to propose Herbert Hoover for President...