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Much of the time Harrison Spangler sat alone and unheeded. One longtime Hoover man cracked bitterly: "I'm not a delegate-I'm a Republican." Another said: "If you've been a Republican more than five years you're through." Ex-President Hoover, recognizing that his political day was over, formally withdrew from active politics. (For months it has been an open secret that Mr. Hoover's Old Guard advice was not welcome in the Dewey camp...
...This is hotly disputed by admirers of Gustavus Franklin Swift, who is also prominently hung. There are gentler people like Wisconsin University's goateed Dr. Stephen Moulton Babcock, to whom dairymen are forever grateful. He refused patents or profit on his butterfat-measuring Babcock Test. There is Herbert Hoover; he was hung for his veto of legislation which would have hurt livestock...
...realistic judgment that if union men can be persuaded to register, they will probably vote "right." But just to make sure, the "educational" literature is direct. Sample: "Most people are worried about what is going to happen to them and to their jobs after war. They remember Mr. Hoover and 1929. Tell them what they must do this year to avoid another Hoover and another...
Last week, when the child (renamed Patricia Ann) was ten months old, the Hardwigs' trial began on their $500,000 suit against South Hoover Hospital for the "shock and excitement" Mrs. Hardwig had suffered from the discovery. "We love her," said they of Patricia Ann, "but we don't feel...
...moved to tears, a portly, white-haired man seated beside her spoke sympathetically: "I expect Poland to be free again." After the show he stopped the Pestka, shook her hand, urged: "Keep your chin up." Gratefully, she asked if she might know his name. "Of course. It's Hoover-Herbert Hoover...