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...ground that he had bought the election, although not many Senators could refute Mr. Vare's understandably angry argument that many of their elections had cost more per vote, more per capita, and more per voting district than his. It was Bill Vare's plump for Herbert Hoover in 1928 that nominated the Great Engineer at Kansas City...
Visiting in San Francisco, Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz-Reventlow, who never before gave a hoot for photographers, posed cooperatively, ingratiated herself with them, got herself some good publicity. Result: a picture of her in Chinatown offering a piece of candy to Hoover...
Prizeman. Among the recipients of prizes and other honors awarded by the Academy was none other than forthright FBI Chief John Edgar Hoover, nemesis of kidnappers, hero of gangbusters, night club celebrity, target of Ogpu-frightened critics. Mr. Hoover got the Academy's Public Welfare Medal, for applying scientific methods to crime detection. Said he handsomely: "I accept this medal not for myself alone but also as a tribute to my associates...
...today, most are marginal producers, their rate of production highly responsive to the cartel's price. Newest U. S. mine in commercial production is the Idaho Almaden near Weiser, Idaho, discovered by a sheepherder in 1936, leased and run by Lawrence Kendall Requa, son of Herbert Hoover's late friend and booster, Mark Requa. Vice presidents of Idaho Almaden are Sons Allan and Herbert Hoover Jr. Producing around 500 Ib. of mercury a day, their mine has made money from its start...
Bruce Barton. Tall, impressively flat-waisted in the House's wallow of paunches, his auburn hair attractively wavy, an honest apple-cheeked smile, Mr. Barton, 53, seems the epitome of the wholesome U. S. businessman. If the 1928 cry for a businessman in the White House (Herbert Hoover) should be revived, Mr. Barton's candidacy would be even more obvious...