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...spread to this country. Instead, the delegates adopted a plank of strict isolation. Other chief concern of the delegates was unemployment. Keynoted Maynard C. Krueger (rhymes with eager) of the University of Chicago: "We Socialists are not interested in trying to make the Capitalist system work. Hoover and Roosevelt have tried that and proved that it can't be done." Private business representing production for profit instead of production for use, said he, has failed. The people must assume the responsibility of running the economic system. There is no law, declared Mr. Krueger, that we must wander...
With his tall and beauteous wife, Pat Hurley trod the social paths of Washington with dignity and zip. When flying was still adventure he flew 100,000 miles, came to be called Hoover's "Eyes & Ears." His Irish temper made him the fighting man of the Hoover Cabinet. He got blamed (unjustly) for the Bonus Army casualties. As the Ickes of his day he took on Democrats by the carload...
...Jimmy." In 1932 at the final Herbert Hoover campaign rally in Madison Square Garden, sprightly, dapper, top-hatted Paul Reynaud was mistaken by the crowd for ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker of New York City, drew cries of: "What are you doing here, Jimmy...
Into a San Francisco barbershop marched Herbert Hoover's friend & aide Ben Shannon Allen, cried: "Have to have a haircut before noon. I'm in a hurry." Said The Customer Ahead of him: "You can have my place." "Do you know who that was?" asked the cashier as Allen paid his bill. "He looks familiar," said Allen. Said the cashier: "He is Harold Ickes...
...speakers as of 1940: grade C-Cordell Hull, Paul V. McNutt ("an orator, not a public speaker"), Robert A. Taft; Grade B plus-Arthur H. Vandenberg (too harsh) and Thomas E. Dewey; Grade A minus-Franklin D. Roosevelt (A plus until he "started to scold"); Grade A plus -Herbert Hoover (Grade...