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...ballot that confronted Wisconsin voters was a complex maze. For Roosevelt there were two slates: one an anti-Hoover-Democrat group headed by Gustave Keller, Appleton lawyer, chummy with La Folletteers; one a "Roosevelt-Farley" ticket, headed by Charles E. Broughton, Sheboygan politician, made up of machine Democrats. For John Nance Garner was a slate bossed by John J. Slocum, Assembly clerk, expected to attract many an anti-Term III voter who would rather protest a Roosevelt re-election than choose between Messrs. Dewey and Vandenberg...
...brief history Oklahoma has given the U. S. a smattering of notables. One of them is onetime Secretary of War (under Hoover) Patrick Jay Hurley, who got his start as a mule boy in a coal mine. When Pat Hurley took office in 1929, no finer figure of a man had ever graced a Cabinet meeting. Six feet tall, erect as a wooden Indian, blue-eyed, black-mustached, Secretary Hurley was a sight for sore eyes. From far-off Oklahoma they watched him with love. "Due to Pat," wrote Oklahoma's late Will Rogers, "we're liable...
...reaching her conclusions about the number of unemployed, Miss Thompson rather blithely neglects some "hard economic facts." She assumes that the population age distribution has remained constant since--1929; it hasn't, with the result that many more now enter the labor market annually than in Hoover days. She neglects the fact that the depression has caused many people of seek work who would otherwise stay at home -- women especially. She adopts a special estimate of unemployment in 1929, instead of taking the average of the accepted figures. And finally, she declines to consider W. P. A.'ers as unemployed...
...fortune in Pancho Villa's revolutionary army, Mr. Barlow began inventing bombs. Thirteen years later he brought suit against the Government for infringement of six bomb patents. In 1932, while his suit was dragging on, he appeared in Washington and began to scare people. He confided in President Hoover and members of Congress that he had a machine which Senator Lynn Frazier later described as "powerful enough to destroy all property and life in a section a quarter of a mile wide and a mile long." So impressed was Senator Frazier that he opposed the Hale Bill to enlarge...
Recently Bob LeTourneau opened a $2,000,000 branch plant at Toccoa, Ga., to turn out his newly designed Tournapulls (self-propelled scrapers). Last week at his Peoria plant he dedicated a new wing "to the service of God." Principal speaker at the ceremonies: Herbert Hoover. LeTourneau contribution to the Finnish Relief Fund: $6,000. For World War II Earth Man LeTourneau has had French and English orders for 300 scrapers (60 are already in bombproof shelters at French airports, ready to level the fields after bombings). Pleased with his success, shrewd Evangelist LeTourneau says: "The more time I spent...