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...Henry L. Stimson, 75; oldest member of the Cabinet (next oldest: Cordell Hull, 70; Frank Knox, Jesse Jones and Harold Ickes, all 68). He spent the day hard at work in Washington, where he had been Secretary of War under Taft, 1911-13; Secretary of State under Hoover...
...sheer physical energy was less an asset, Knox often lost more votes than he gained. Once he charged that New Deal policies had brought the country to a state where "no life insurance policy is secure; no savings account is safe." Reporters had a field day badgering Republican Herbert Hoover, a director of New York Life Insurance Co., about supporting a man with such a low opinion of insurance...
Strange news came out of Washington over the United Press wires. The President, U.P. declared, has become a great admirer of the policies of the late Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury under Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, and is making plans to pay off this war's debt just as Mellon started paying off the debt for World...
...magnificent collection of documents in the Hoover Library on War, Revolution and Peace has no single over-all survey of the public mind of Europe on Aug. 1, 1914. Where groups or individuals analyzed public reactions it was with a thought of their use, of their conscious manipulation to achieve a foreknown effect for the benefit of the group doing the manipulating. This was as true of Lenin, stunned that the German Social Democrats supported the war, as it was of Pareto, brooding over the "residues" of primitive impulses that lay beneath the conscious purposes of the masses...
Dewey, who has the Republican nomination completely sewed up, stands the best chance in twenty years to walk into the Albany State House without even bothering to campaign. When 1944 rolls around, he will be a ready-made Presidential candidate. With the paternal blessings of Herbert Hoover and Alf Landon, and with support from Westbrook Pegler, the nation's most widely read columnist, Dewey will be the most seasoned piece of 1944 Republican timber...