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...gossips wrote the Federal Bureau of Investigation volunteering to spy on their neighbors. To Washington flocked businessmen, big & small, proffering services. The President ordered memos drafted by all of his aides, their ideas to be boiled into a page. The Capitol combined the worried gloom of the last Hoover days with the rampant confusion of NRA Blue Eagle times...
...percent of the Freshmen favor Willkie as the Republican choice, while only 14 percent voted for Dewey, 12 percent for Taft, 7.2 percent for Hoover, and 6.9 percent for Vaudenburg. The remaining 8 percent of the votes were split among Martin, McNary, Knox, Bricker, Landon, and MacNider...
...first New Dealers who went to Washington with Franklin Roosevelt were the New Isolationists, intent on a Brave New World. Raymond Moley, impatient with the fuddy-duddy, international-cooperation ideas of Tennessee's Cordell Hull, was horrified at the President's willingness to consult with Herbert Hoover's world-minded Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson. "Three thousand miles of good green water" on each coast seemed an ample guaranty of security forever...
South Dakota. In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in South Dakota by 84,000 votes, beat Landon in 1936 by 34,000 votes. In 1938 Republican Harlan J. Bushfield squeakily won the Governorship from Democrat Oscar Fosheim. Last week Governor Bushfield, up for renomination, pulled twice the Democratic total...
...Dewey added Maryland's 16, Idaho's eight votes to his bag last week. But in California Herbert Hoover's agents quietly picked up 44 "uninstructed" delegates for their old boss. Ohio's Candidate Robert Alphonso Taft discovered last week that viewing-with-alarm, tub-thumping and Pullman undressing had shortened the life of his four all-purpose suits (funerals, weddings, Senate). He acted promptly: in 25 minutes he had enough clothes to carry him through the G. O. P. convention-one pair Regal shoes, black, $5.80; one dark grey, lightweight spring suit...