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...year-old President Grant has long been ill, most Mormons decided that this revelation came from the man who read it to the conference-First Counselor J. Reuben Clark Jr., onetime Hoover Ambassador to Mexico and a last-ditch isolationist before Pearl Harbor. Next day this impression was strengthened when disagreement in the First Presidency itself became evident. Said Second Counselor David 0. McKay in a national broadcast: "The conflict must continue. ... We cannot have peace until the mad gangsters ... are defeated and branded as murderers, their false aims repudiated, and this war against wickedness ended...
...Living up to his credo, he shifted from senior engineer for a wheel company to cost accounting for a trust company to factory manager for an auto-accessory company which was making 75-mm. shell casings for World War I. He helped organize the milling division of Herbert Hoover's Food Administration, then switched again to be a major in the Air Service's production division at Dayton. After the Armistice he organized an industrial department for New York City's Liberty National Bank (later merged with New York Trust Co.). As it turned out that...
...MARCH OF TIME this summer than have appeared on any other program in so short a time in all the history of radio. Among them were fabulous boatbuilder Henry J. Kaiser and world-traveler Wendell Willkie, Army Supply Chief General Brehon B. Somervell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Philippine President Manuel Quezon...
...York, FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover warned "unless we all do our jobs better, we can expect another era of lawlessness as after the last...
...graduate of Annapolis, Sweetland retired form the Navy in 1922 when the disarmament program was under way and followed a publishing career which included the publication of President Hoover's "Boyhood in Iowa" on the Argentine Press which he founded. Early this year he was commissioned in the Naval Reserve and came to Harvard with the NTS in June. No announcement has as yet been made naming his successor at the Harvard school...