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Lifted Voices. Less than crystal clear was the President's proposal, which was supported by ex-President Hoover. It was no secret that Finland needed arms more than food, money more than arms. The vague reference to loans in South America frightened some who might otherwise have approved of aid to the Finns. But if the President's proposal lacked clarity, the Senators' discussion lacked that and a good deal more. What worried Senators was not aid to Finland. It was: should the President's letter be referred to the Committee on Banking and Currency...
Reaction. So it appeared to staggered Finns that they would get no help from the U. S. Outside the Senate, U. S. relief for Finland went forward: the Finnish Relief Fund raised its first $1,000,000; Herbert Hoover rounded up a committee of industrialists, got them to pledge $1,000,000 more. The National Labor Organizations Division of Finnish Relief, hampered in its formative stages by the delicate problem of Communists in the labor movement, at last got organized...
Last week the Christian Front was again to the fore. G-Man John Edgar Hoover put the Front in the headlines last fortnight by seizing 17 obscure members in New York City, announcing that they had plotted to overrun the East, bomb Reds, exterminate Jews, set up a dictatorship (TIME, Jan. 22). Detroit's radiorating Father Charles E. Coughlin loudly and specifically disavowed the Christian Front to which the captives belonged. The press dug up additional detail, indicating that the captive Christian Fronters were "awful" shots and mere blustering braggarts. Michigan's squat, swart Congressman Frank Hook tried...
...four years, Bob Taft grubbed earnestly in the old city firm of Maxwell & Ramsey. In 1917, he twice tried to enlist for officers' training, was twice rejected (eyesight). He met Herbert Hoover, became assistant counsel of the U. S. Food Administration, finally went abroad with Mr. Hoover's American Relief Administration. For his relief work in Europe he got Polish, Belgian, Finnish decorations, which he never wears...
...wrote upstate New York's potent Congressman James W. Wadsworth (see p. 18), whom Publisher Gannett helped turn out of the U. S. Senate in 1926. An interested if distant observer in Washington was Frank Gannett's friend William Edgar Borah of Idaho. Distinctly cool was Herbert Hoover in Manhattan. Coldly observant near by were most New York Republican politicos. They gave Frank Gannett small chance, nevertheless foresaw that by splitting the State delegation he could gravely harm New York's Candidate Tom Dewey at the G. O. P. convention this summer. For years not a loving...