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...Appropriated $2,500 to buy an oil portrait of Herbert Hoover to hang in the White House...
Sunday before last, Washington Columnist Drew Pearson, speaking as a guest at the weekly unrehearsed Round Table discussion of the University of Chicago over the 58 stations of the NBC Red Network, remarked that proponents of Herbert Hoover were already active in Louisiana and Mississippi "buying up" delegates to the 1940 Republican National Convention...
...favorite Republican son next year. Senator Taft: "I appreciate his kind words." In last week's Gallup poll on candidates preferred ahead of Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Taft's name did not appear among the first eleven Republicans. Ahead of him were Dewey, Vandenberg, LaGuardia, Borah, Hoover, Landon...
Kidnapping has dropped off proportionately; Mr. Hoover was able to report 154 solutions out of 156 cases pursued since 1932 (Lindbergh...
...featured some new names. M. G. M.'s Louis Burt Mayer spoke up for MRA-as Cinema Tsar Will H. Hays had done at a luncheon given by Mr. Mayer for the Buchmanites. Henry Ford sent a message, publicly endorsing Dr. Buchman and his work by name. Herbert Hoover furnished some words about the world's troubles, which headline writers construed as praise for MRA; thereupon Mr. Hoover let it be known that he neither endorsed MRA nor denied endorsing it. Read again was the message President Roosevelt sent a recent MRA meeting in Washington. Thirty-three...