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...fats-butter, lard or oil. Spain, ravaged long before the war, faced famine as the winter deepened. Typhus appeared in Warsaw. In unoccupied France, as stormy weather swept over the stricken cities, 2,000,000 children seemed doomed to malnutrition and the preventable diseases that go with it. Herbert Hoover, with contacts with most relief agencies, estimated that 18,000,000 people in Finland, Poland, Norway, Belgium and The Netherlands would be without food before the winter was over...
...Herbert Hoover made news by a speech with which many opposing people could agree in part if not wholly. On feeding Europe he stood with Anne Lindbergh; on the need for full and fair debate, step by step, he stood with her husband; on the need of expansion of production instead of rations, he stood with Leon Henderson and Franklin Roosevelt; on the need of planning the post-war world he came close to the "peace-without-empire" theories of Adolf A. Berle; on the need for cool judgment and sober action, he agreed with everybody...
...Nebraska-Stanford Rose Bowl game to be had in Omaha. So they wired an appeal to Stanford's most famed alumnus, who lives olympically on Stanford's campus and who has helped a lot of people in one struggle or another. Back came word that Herbert Hoover would see that they got tickets...
...Hjalmar Schacht of the U. S. Revolution was brought to Washington by Herbert Hoover. He was a Texas businessman who had almost gone broke in Depression. By 1940 he was rich again, and the Revolution had made him Secretary of Commerce and Federal Loan Administrator. Business thought of Jesse Jones as its friend at court, the Old Deal's borer from within the New. Tactful and unobtrusive, Jesse Jones did not act like a revolutionary. He did not set up any industrial TVAs; he merely "took what the banks left over." By Dec. 1, 1940 he had made commitments...
...bonds, but passage of a law affecting State and local securities was another matter. Reason: opposition by municipalities and States'-righters. Townsmen, villagers and politicians girded their lobbyists last week for a death-&-taxes struggle with their Congressmen. Victory has always been on their side: Presidents Harding, Coolidge, Hoover; Treasury Secretaries Andrew Mellon and Ogden Mills all advocated abandonment of tax exemptions, were always defeated. Ignored were Franklin Roosevelt and Henry Morgenthau in 1937, and again last session. But now Messrs. Roosevelt & Morgenthau had a new argument: national defense. Of untaxable securities tabasco-tongued Mr. Morgenthau last week snorted...