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...Congress had given President Roosevelt his way in most matters, but it balked at the Seaway. The Senate refused to ratify the treaty with Canada that had been signed in the last days of the Hoover Administration, although the President had twice sent messages urging its ratification. Last week he let it be known that he would bring up the Seaway again, in time for his prospective honeymoon with Congress during the third Administration. He had Assistant Secretary of State Adolf Berle publish the banns. In Detroit Mr. Berle read a Presidential message to a conference of Seaway supporters...
Last week, as Dies and the Justice Department continued to wrangle, FBI made a feeble attempt to get back into the E. Phillips Oppenheim area of romance, international intrigue and slinky sirens. At a dinner of the National Stevedores Association,* in Washington, one of G-Man Hoover's assistants, Inspector L. R. Pennington, "bared" a "girl spy plot." The stalwart inspector alleged that "a prominent society woman from a totalitarian country" had plotted to hire beautiful but subversive girls, had rented a house in Washington, was ready to install elaborate gambling facilities. Army, Navy, State Department officials were...
...that such a committee is not needed at all, that Congress should drop the whole idea of a separate investigation and leave the job to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Attorney-General Jackson has proclaimed the superiority of this agency in combatting sabotage. But J. Edgar Hoover, the idol of all American boys from sixteen to sixty, has a healthy thirst for publicity in his own right; and his record in the "Red-scare" of the last war plus more recent incidents like the "Detroit recruiting case" afford little comfort. On the other hand, his position in an-executive department...
With this in mind, the task is to find a relief program that will gain the cooperation of the British and German governments. The most promising proposal made so far is that of Herbert Hoover, America's Number One war relief expert. His idea is to let the occupied countries buy food-stuffs here with their liquid assets now in this country, and carry it home in their own ships. Added to this would be the food contributed by numerous charities; the total should be enough to tide the needy over the worst months. Careful distribution of the food...
Busy but discreetly mum were black-browed John Edgar Hoover and his FBIndians. Months ago they warned U. S. industrialists that sabotage might lie ahead, handed out a printed pamphlet on how to head it off by greater vigilance, better plant supervision. Until they could nab an active saboteur, they had to keep their evidence to themselves. Up to last week, they had apparently nabbed none. Not thus inhibited was Martin Dies. Last week he announced that he and his committee had compiled a fat tome on sabotage agents, intimated that shortly he would release it to press and public...