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From his regular 45-minute morning constitutional on Park Avenue, Herbert Hoover returned one day last week to his Waldorf-Astoria sitting-room suite, summoned the press. He had polished up a 1932 idea to fit the exigencies of the Great Debate on U. S. neutrality...
...grounds that both repeal or retention of the Neutrality Act's arms embargo might lead the U. S. into World War II, Herbert Hoover now proposed that the U. S. sell freely "defensive" weapons (pursuit & light observation planes, anti-aircraft guns), prohibit forever the sale of "offensive" weapons (bombing planes, bombs, poison gas, submarines...
Last week the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities which has constantly astounded itself, astounded even its critics by turning up some useful information about the U. S. Communist Party. Congressman Martin Dies and his investigators achieved this feat by aping G-Man Edgar Hoover and Treasury tax sleuths, going to bank records for telltale facts...
...family (two sons) Herbert Clark Hoover added a foster son, one Ramon Garcia Alvarez, 11, whom the ex-President will support at a cost of $9 a month in a Spanish refugee colony near Biarritz, France...
...Marine Corps from 19,000 to 25,000, the National Guard from 190,000 to 235,000 (if the States agree). 2) He allotted $500,000 to the State Department to finance repatriation of endangered U. S. citizens in Europe. 3) He upped G-Man Edgar Hoover's force by 150, to hunt down spies...