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Herbert Lehman's mission was to follow up each Allied victory with food, clothing, medicine and more-tools for conquered peoples to build a new life out of Axis desolation. He would use food to relieve the starving, as Herbert Hoover did in World War I. But Lehman also would use it as psychological ammunition to help win the war. To subject nations the world over would go the word that bread and meat were on the way, once the Axis yoke was cast off. His job was not to stop with victory, but to advance behind United Nations...
Bryan Untiedt, nationally famed schoolboy hero of 1931 (he cared for 14 schoolmates in a blizzard-bound Colorado bus, dined with President Hoover at the White House), joined the Navy in Denver as a carpenter's mate...
...G.O.P. leaders had committed themselves publicly, but in the battle for votes Schroeder had the behind-scenes support of Herbert Hoover, Ohio's Senator Robert Taft, silver-haired Henry P. Fletcher, who held the job himself back in 1934-36, and many a "practical" politician. Leading the fight against Schroeder was Wendell Willkie...
...states in the fight for the presidency, is once again on the threshold of national power. Senate Republicans, while still a clear minority, have risen from complete impotence to a challenging position by picking up at least nine seats. The House, Democratic stronghold since the middle of the Hoover administration, shows a more startling doubt the Democrats appear to have retained a nominal majority by perhaps as little as half-a-dozen votes--a long drop from the margin of fifty-five with which they entered Tuesday's balloting. And in the nation as a whole Republican nominees replace Democratic...
...Edgar Hoover and San Francisco's Police Department's Kate Sullivan, know well that the love and affection of mothers at home would prevent most of our criminal and delinquency cases. The best available figures show that there were around 4,300,000 criminals in the U.S. last year-of which 72% were under 23 years of age-and that about 150,000 girls disappear each year into an infamous easy life...