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Signs of Spring. Work was piled on his desk. He left it long enough to award Medals for Merit for wartime services to the F.B.I.'s stocky J. Edgar Hoover, the ODT's leathery John Monroe ("Steamboat") Johnson, the Association of American Railroads' President John Jeremiah Pelley...
...President took steps to accept his vast responsibility for the world's food supply. As the Government moved to speed wheat shipments overseas (see BUSINESS), Harry Truman called World War I's famed food expert, former President Herbert Hoover, and a Famine Committee of twelve other prominent citizens* to the White House. Their job: to formulate a program through which the U.S. public could voluntarily practice self-denial as the price of national self-respect...
Perils of Pregnancy. Of his Presidents, Starling cared least for Warren G. Harding and Herbert Hoover. Toward Franklin Roosevelt his attitude was respectfully correct. He has caught each of his charges in a memorable episode...
There is kindly, comfortable Warren Harding telling the newshawks at the Press Club: "It is a good thing I am not a woman. I would always be pregnant. I cannot say no." There is kindly, uncomfortable Herbert Hoover being photographed with three groups of visitors whose identity he asked about. "Morticians," Starling wrote on a card. With a typical fumble of the administration. Hoover was introduced to "five hundred bricklayers." There is Franklin Roosevelt listening to Presidential Secretary Marvin Mclntyre and his White House quartet singing over the radio and then calling the station to offer Mclntyre a fat contract...
...German officer gave a German reason for it: "These Belgian swine have an insulting inscription about us on their library." The officer was wrong. Cardinal Mercier's proposed inscription-Furore Teutonico Diruta, Dono Americano Restituta (Destroyed by German Fury, Restored by American Gift)-was never used because Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and U.S. pacifists denounced it as hate-breeding...