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...Herbert Hoover, returning to Manhattan from a vacation with his family in California, gave out a one-sentence, stiff-collared statement: "The prospects for victory are certain; the prospects of lasting peace are discouraging...
...passed up Herbert Hoover, just elected President, because that year was the businessman's year and Walter P. Chrysler was his symbol. When Business crashed in 1929 we passed by Hoover again, skipped over Explorer Byrd and Peace-Pacter Kellogg in favor of Owen D. Young, back from Paris with his plan for settling Europe's troubles under...
...been a registered Republican since I became old enough to vote for Mr. Hoover against Al Smith in 1928. This last election caused my feelings to run the course from interest to astonishment to disgust; but it was not until yesterday that they reached real anger. My absolute disgust for the Republican campaign sent me running to the polls to vote with pride for President Roosevelt...
Born in Indian Territory, Pat Hurley began work at eleven as mule boy in a coal mine. Oil and a dash of the law made him wealthy. After four years as Herbert Hoover's Secretary of War, he dabbled in Washington lobbying, became as outspoken an anti-New Dealer as any ex-officeholder. But Franklin Roosevelt tapped him early in World War II for a wide variety of ticklish diplomatic junkets. They have carried him at least three times across both the Atlantic and the Pacific, and into six continents-to Moscow, Canberra, Cairo, Kabul, Natal and points between...
Upset. Perhaps the Senate's biggest upset was the defeat of Pennsylvania's gladhanding, snow-crested "Puddler Jim" Davis, 71, member of the Moose, Secretary of Labor under Herbert Hoover and a fixture on the public payroll since 1921. His successor, who rode the Roosevelt wind across Pennsylvania, is an all but unknown Philadelphia Democrat, 200-lb. Francis J. Myers, 42, who has served three plodding terms in the House...