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...Herbert Hoover is mentally deficient and Roosevelt is an amateur Englishman, a Jew, and the leader of the fifth column in this country...
...Most gasp-worthy Winchell phenomenon: "Having been an intimate friend of Owney Madden. New York's No. 1 gang leader of the prohibition era, he became in the short space of two years, the public pal of J. Edgar Hoover, the No. 1 G-man of the repeal era." In 1932 Winchell's intimacy with gangland led to fear he would be rubbed out for knowing too much. In terror he fled to California, returned weeks later with a new enthusiasm for law, G-men, Uncle Sam, Old Glory...
...Artist Doctoroff made charcoal drawings of Candidates Hoover and Curtis. (He rates Mr. Hoover one of his dullest subjects.) Having painted such bigwigs as Chicago's Rabbi Louis Mann, Illinois's Governor Henry Homer, the late Banker Melvin Traylor, the late William Wrigley Jr., Railroader Daniel Willard, Artist Doctoroff tried his hand at the late Abraham Lincoln. This canvas so impressed Publisher Robert Rutherford McCormick of the Tribune that he bought it for $500, replated and reprinted his Lincoln's Day rotogravure section to feature it. In 1936 the Tribune paid Mr. Doctoroff $500 to spend...
When Franklin Roosevelt let "Uncle Dan" Roper drowse on at Commerce for almost six years, it was apparent that he did not take very seriously the job which Herbert Hoover made one of the biggest in the Government. When the scandals of the 1938 Congressional campaign made Friend Harry's WPA job uncomfortably hot, Uncle Dan was moved out to make room for him. For the last year and a half, Hopkins' health has kept him away from his desk most of the time. Recently his health has improved slightly, but last week this was the excuse...
...Basis of Hoover's proposal, by which England would be asked to sheathe her chief weapon, the blockade, would be a guarantee from Germany not to requisition any of the supplies. (Such a guarantee was asked and given in 1914, when Hoover's committee fed nearly 7,500,000 Belgians; for the most part Germany stuck to her word.) Mr. Hoover planned a U. S. commission to check up on the fulfillment of Nazi promises. What he was proposing in fact, as Columnist Walter Lippmann pointed out, was an internal blockade of Germany, in "a vast territory occupied...