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Called in by the Senate Judiciary Committee to tell these stories, to soothe a teapot tempest, were Censor Byron Price, Attorney General Francis Biddle, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Captain Ellis M. Zacharias of the Navy Intelligence, Brigadier General Hayes A. Kroner of the Army Intelligence...
Toward a Versailles-proof people's peace, Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover last week contributed some clear thinking about a planned change in the whole method and process of peacemaking...
Ruled out by the former President were another months-long armistice, the green-baize conference tables and the static "peace" formulas that followed World War I. Instead, Herbert Hoover proposed a peace in two stages...
...selection of the Indiana liberal was a telling blow to the Robert Taft, Herbert Hoover, Alf Landon school of Old Guard conservatism. It came as a popular reaction against a policy that had cooly managed to avoid action during the early depression, that had humiliated the party in 1936, and had risen to hamstring preparedness. Clearly, the obstructionist conservatives were on the outs with the popular interests of the party, still the die-hards had fight left in them and set to work preparing for the second round...
...simple speech Elder Statesman Herbert Hoover last week offered twelve principles to guide civilian economy in total war. To 4,000 people at the Manhattan convention of the National Association of Manufacturers (see p. 91) Herbert Hoover said: "From our own experience and the experience of all other countries ... we can distill some principles or policies of organization of civilians. I do not offer them as criticism, but as recommendations for adoption where they have not been applied in this war." The principles...