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...five years at the University of Detroit, made a good judge at the Recorder's Court in Detroit for seven years, lawyers deemed his legal training adequate, but pointed out that the appointment was not one of the great ones - like Theodore Roosevelt's selection of Holmes, Hoover's of Cardozo...
Simply on the basis of his achievements in international affairs, Cordell Hull has become, of all things, very nearly an idol of the very men who know how difficult his task has been-the two living former Secretaries of State. Henry L. Stimson (Hoover) believes Hull is one of the greatest of all Secretaries; dashes off letters to the New York Times every time Mr. Hull is criticized. Charles Evans Hughes (Harding & Coolidge) is known to believe implicitly in both Hull's ideals and capacities; even John Bassett Moore (many times Assistant Secretary of State and author...
...order houses, Chambers of Commerce, business analysts have long complained that there are no satisfactory figures on marketing, credit, unemployment, etc. Though production censuses have been going on since 1810, the first official census of all U. S. business (retailing, wholesaling, construction, service industries, etc.) was conducted under Herbert Hoover in 1930. The only ones since then, in 1933 and 1935, were unsatisfactory because businessmen were requested but not compelled to answer the questions. When a census taker asks a question, a businessman answers or may be fined $100 and put away for 60 days...
...Hoover an injustice when you say he cannot tell a joke (TIME, Dec. 18). To prove that you're wrong, simply let me refer you to a remark he made a year or two ago, concerning the famous initialed institutions of the New Deal. He said that all but five letters were used in these, and that all we needed was a Quick Loans Corporation for Xylophones, Yachts, and Zithers to exhaust the alphabet. . . . Regardless of whether or not you think this one is funny, it unquestionably comes under the heading of a joke...
Last August, with the hot breaths of Tom Dewey and J. Edgar Hoover both on his neck, Gangster Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive for two years, chose as the lesser of two evils to give himself up to the FBI chief. Month ago he slouched into Federal court. Graduate of the Connecticut Reformatory, Sing Sing, ex-loft burglar, racketeer, gorilla chief, suspected of many a murder, Lepke was there to stand trial on the first of ten indictments for smuggling dope...