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...Larry" Fly came to Washington in 1929 by way of Texas, the U.S. Naval Academy, Harvard Law School, and private law practice in Manhattan. He joined the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division under President Hoover. There he won national renown by defeating Wendell Willkie in the historic battle of the Tennessee Valley Authority v. Commonwealth & Southern. Said Willkie: "He is the most dangerous man in America-to have on the other side...
...Campaigner? All this was tough, hard, political infighting. In previous campaigns Franklin Roosevelt had never had an opponent who had known so well how to fight back. Herbert Hoover, flustered, had made lonesome speeches about the preservation of liberty; Alf Landon had swung wildly in all directions; Wendell Willkie, no politician, had gone on crusading for his ideals. Ex-District Attorney Tom Dewey, who had observed their mistakes, had another advantage-he had four more years of the New Deal record to throw at his opponent. In the last fortnight of the campaign he was fighting a cool, confident, hard...
Tell Ben Turick, who hails from my home town, that those reasons for Dewey votes (TIME LETTERS, Oct. 9), are absurd enough but no more than the one a great many Roosevelt supporters give, viz.: "I will vote for Roosevelt in 1944 because of what Hoover did or didn't do in 1932." If Hoover's record of twelve years ago has any bearing on what either candidate proposes to do in 1945 I'd like to know what...
...Connecticut last week, the New Deal candidate for governor made a desperate attempt to defeat popular Republican Governor Raymond E. Baldwin by accusing him of having "deserted" Willkie to become a "Hoover Republican." Governor Baldwin, who seconded Willkie's nomination in Philadelphia in 1940, and who had been a strongpoint in Willkie's strategy ever since, could not take this lying down. So Governor Baldwin told a little history. Said...
Young, globe-trotting Herbert Hoover Jr., 41, arrived in Washington from the Middle East and promptly hurried to the complicated grey bird's-nest that is the State Department. Hoover's firm, United Engineering Corp., S.A., has been advising the oil-conscious Iranian Government on its oil policies since last June. By last week Teheran oil politics were gushing over. Three U.S. companies-Standard Oil Co. (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. Inc. and Sinclair Oil Corp.-were seeking oil concessions from suave, car-mad Mohammed Shah Pahlavi in competition with the British Anglo-Iranian...