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Oklahoma has almost, but never quite elected a Republican Governor. But in national politics the Sooner State has twice strayed from the Democratic reservation (Harding and Hoover...
Last week lanky Irving Dilliard reported in the New Republic on a trip through Oklahoma, checked the Democrats' work. When Herbert Hoover's 1928 victory swept Republicans into State jobs, the Democratic legislative majority promptly put through a law separating the Presidential ticket from State office ballots, so that small-fry Democrats might be re-elected even when their Presidential candidate went down. Then last November, Edward H. Moore, a Democrat-turned-Republican, trounced New Dealer Josh Lee for the U.S. Senate. Democrats in the State Legislature saw new storm signals, decided to act again. This time they...
...Martinique before his arrival in America. The pro-Vichy master of the French Caribbean island, cagey, white-goateed Admiral Georges Robert, had asked the U.S. "to fix the terms" for a change in the island's authority. To Martinique for negotiations hurried U.S. Vice Admiral John H. Hoover, commander of the Caribbean Sea Frontier. After three years of jealous, stubborn defiance, cantankerous Robert seemed ready to turn over his tiny domain, with its gold, its barnacled ships and its rebellious, starving inhabitants, to the rule of the Committee of Liberation in North Africa...
After 1906 the Mayflower settled down to a quieter routine as Presidential yacht: Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Harding, Coolidge reviewed the fleet from her decks. Presidents Taft and Wilson entertained bigwigs on board. In 1929 President Hoover decided she was too costly; she was decommissioned and unsuccessfully offered for sale six separate times. In 1931 she caught fire and sank at her berth in the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Then the Mayflower was put up for scrap, sold to a Chicago bidder for a dismal $16,105. The Chicago firm resold her to a Wilmington, N. C. company, which in turn resold...
Retorted Mr. Hoover: " No responsible person has proposed a food 'czar,' nor an Angel Gabriel. What large sections of the country and the House Agriculture Committee have demanded is a Food Administrator, acting within the laws. . . . We need a manager, not a dictator...