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...Although Chairman John Hamilton bangs his gavel for order at 11 a.m. June 24, and Keynoter Governor Stassen begins at 10 that night, next night ex-President Hoover says his say, third day is scheduled for the platform. Thus balloting will probably not begin until Thursday, June 27-which means the loss of a full work-week for delegates, who supposedly pay their own expenses during the Convention...
...About like this: Arthur James, 72; Arthur Vandenberg, 67; Herbert Hoover, 44; Hanford MacNider, 33; Wendell Willkie, 26; Frank Gannett, 24; Styles Bridges, 24; Joe Martin, 20; Arthur Capper, 18; Raymond Baldwin, 16; Charles McNary, 10; Hamilton Fish, 2; unknown...
...them trade overseas. Canadian bins held enough wheat to feed the Allies for a year. Experts reckoned the U. S. would have 346,000,000 bu. of wheat, 266,352,000 Ib. of lard, 692,000,000 bu. of fodder corn in its storehouses this autumn. Last week Hoover's Committee, the Aldrich Committee, the Red Cross and Friends Service Committee were all gathering funds to feed war refugees now in France. For, whether they got paid for their help or not, whether they were in the war or out, Americans are very unlikely to let anybody in Great...
...agriculture crippled by just about everything that a hard winter and the perversity of man can do, Europe faces a famine this winter that may well be worse than any ever known in the Old World. No man knew this better than Quaker Herbert Hoover, who 25 years ago had the job of keeping Europe's children fed (see cut). Wrote onetime President Hoover in Liberty last week: "The food situation in the present war is already more desperate than at the same stage in the World War. ... If this war is long continued, there is but one implacable...
Warwise Canadians, seeking the hard facts of death and disaster, knew one place to find them. In spite of censorship, in spite of anonymous telephone calls accusing him of treason, in the Toronto Star Go-year-old William Rothwell Plewman-platinum-haired and wearer of a tall Herbert Hoover collar-wrote his daily column, The War Reviewed, analyzing World War II as he once analyzed World...