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Karl Mundt's resolution will very probably never get out of committee; he proposed that the commission be appointed by Cordell Hull, Herbert Hoover and Congress. But it was significant for a broader reason: it was a definite break from the isolationist ranks. Said the man who once opposed any foreign intervention: "Neither our foreign policy nor our domestic economy can operate in a vacuum after the war. . . . We must make neither the mistake of fashioning international programs without regard to our American destiny, nor the error of focusing attention upon American problems without regard to their workability...
Millions of loyal radio fans will miss them. So will Henry Ford, who writes fan letters, J. Edgar Hoover, James Thurber, Vincent Astor, and countless others whose addiction approaches that of the late Arthur Brisbane, who sometimes telephoned breathlessly after the broadcast to find out what would happen in the next episode...
...those economy-minded legislators are left hanging on the end of a long and lonesome limb. The new budget contains the smallest requests for ordinary peacetime funds of any one since Herbert Hoover was peeping cautiously around corners. Of the 109 billions asked by the President, only four and a half are to go for regular expenses; every other nickel will go into the maw of Mars. Except for statutory outlays, such as debt retirement and social security payments, every civil agency except agriculture has been cut to the bone. The case of agriculture is simply explained, for Congress itself...
...Trail. First the FBI picked up Nelson and Stewart. Then, with FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover directing, it laid careful traps around the two North Side apartments. One night last week the traps were sprung...
...Bradstreet (which grew out of the Mercantile Agency) celebrated ts first anniversary of special sleuthing for he U.S. Government and its war contractors. D. & B.'s 7,000 trained investigators are now answering some 100,000 inquiries a month for war agencies and contractors, thus freeing J. Edgar Hoover's G-men for more sinister detective problems. D. & B.'s sleuthing involves no special FBI or police-court tactics, but its routine provides a careful check on where people have traveled, and what their jobs, friends and loyalties have been...