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...Miss Thompson's husband, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, in his most famed book, Main Street, reached fewer U. S. voters than Miss Thompson reaches daily in her syndicated column On The Record (audience: 7,000,000). Last week Dorothy Thompson picked up a phrase by Herbert Hoover-"Ideas cannot be cured with battleships"-and retorted: "Ideas can certainly be spread and suppressed by the sword. . . . The spreading of ideas by economic sanctions-i.e., force-has already too deeply penetrated this democracy...
Died. Dr. Joseph Irwin France, 65, onetime (1917-23) U. S. Senator from Maryland; of a heart attack; in Port Deposit, Md. The only avowed candidate against Herbert Hoover at the Republican Convention in 1932, he was forcibly ejected from the convention rostrum when he attempted to withdraw his name and substitute that of Calvin Coolidge...
...With respect to your general doctrine that a deficit will bring about business recovery, I call your attention to the fact that Mr. Hoover did very well in this matter. He had a deficit of $3,153,000,000 in 1932 preceded by a deficit of nearly a billion...
...Boys. Felix Frankfurter's notes recommending young lawyers-over a scrawled "FF"-fluttered into Washington long before the New Deal (Corcoran, for instance, was a gift to Hoover's RFC). The fact that 125 "happy hot dogs" are in Washington today spurred General Hugh Johnson to call Professor Frankfurter "the most influential single individual...
...Republicans like Herbert Hoover this kind of thing is blatant propaganda, in which Government money is squandered to keep the Government in the hands of one regime. New Dealers defend it as an up-to-date and effective way of letting the people know how their money is spent. Just how much expense and ballyhoo is justifiable in passing out such information is the main point at issue. There is another point: since 1913 there has been a U. S. law forbidding any Federal agency to hire a "publicity expert" without a specific appropriation...