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...ought to know it was Attorney General Murphy and J. Edgar Hoover." Seventeen-year-old Robert Irey reddened, said nothing. The Ireys don't talk much. But he knew very well who was responsible for jailing Tom Pendergast. Why, J. Edgar Hoover had never even heard of the case until the four-year accumulation of convicting evidence had been turned over to Department of Justice lawyers. He knew because the man who got the evidence...
Hollywood's Gone With the Wind arrived in Washington last week. For the second night's performance a mysterious, big-hearted donor bought out the Palace Theatre, resold the 2,357 seats at $3 to $10 each and turned over the $13,000 net profit to Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund...
...Manhattan, Mr. Hoover's lieutenants announced total collections to date...
Asked to write a plea for Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund, crusty old Author Theodore Dreiser replied: "I am not just another American propaganda sucker," added: "If our papers do not lie, and they never lie, it is the Russians who seem to need help against the Finns...
Every ten years educators, parents, social workers, doctors gather in Washington for a check-up on the condition of U. S. children. President Theodore Roosevelt started it by calling the first White House Conference on children in 1909. Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover followed suit in 1919 and 1930. Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins rapped a gavel, called to order the fourth decennial White House Conference on Children in a Democracy...