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...thing and all Presidents are greedy for them. His prime example: "Despite President Coolidge's 'I do not choose to run,' he threw himself on his bed in an agony of disappointment and was unapproachable for two days after the news reached him that Mr. Hoover had been nominated...
Then up rose Herbert Hoover, ex-President of the U. S., and proceeded to plunge the gathering again into gloom. Mr. Hoover undertook to picture the post-war world to come. He predicted that dictators would control 60% of the world's people and 40% of its trade, warned that if the U. S. entered the war it, too, would become a dictatorship. He bade the U. S. prepare to do business with the dictators. Said he: "The idea of the free States combining against the totalitarian nations in trade is just nonsense. The world has to live...
...Washington, Garfield, Taft, Wilson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Herbert Hoover, who got a second honorary degree from Penn last week...
Louis Raemaekers lives modestly in Manhattan with a few of his possessions. He had sent to the U. S. some 600 cartoons-he contributed about 350 a year to the Amsterdam Telegraaf - forwarded for safekeeping to Herbert Hoover's war library at Stanford University. For two months during the summer Raemaekers drew a cartoon a week for the New York Herald Tribune. Now he works for the afternoon tabloid PM. During World War I, Raemaekers made two cartoons a day, saw his work blown up in posters as big as 15 by 20 yards, was so powerful that...
Science, medicine, education, social study, the arts, the humanities, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt took their turns on the stage last week in Philadelphia as the University of Pennsylvania celebrated its 200th birthday (see p. 43). High lights in science...