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...with farm income at $4,328,000,000, a post-War low, Herbert Hoover lost every State in the Farm Belt...
...months. In his 70s he told off Roosevelt I about Agriculture. Into his 80s, to half of Iowa, he was beloved "Uncle Henry." His son Henry Cantwell Wallace was a big, frail man who wore himself out as Harding's Secretary of Agriculture in jurisdictional disputes with Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce. He left his son with a distrust of politics and a dislike of Herbert Hoover so strong that in 1928 Henry III deserted his traditional Republicanism to support Al Smith...
...Hoover, the miner, was resurrected by a C. I. O. strike at the New Idria quicksilver mine near Hollister, Calif. (100 miles south of San Francisco). New Idria Mining Co. was organized in 1936 by Brother Theodore Hoover, who is president of the company. Engineer Henry W. Gould, vice president and general manager, and State Senator Sanborn Young, a leading sponsor of the antilabor proposal which referending California voters turned down last month. Because war in Spain has curtailed output from the biggest sources of quicksilver. New Idria's business has picked up lately. The mine produces one-third...
...Idria's labor policy would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined...
...Executive Committee, where New York's Hilles had sat, though his committee back home had not voted for this. As an acknowledged leader of the young, "liberal" element in the party and as a demonstrably able political practitioner, he felt he deserved the place ahead of Herbert Hoover's candidate, Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, splendid committeewoman though she is. Unhappily for the party's publicity, Mr. Simpson cried: "The people have left the President, but they will turn to the Republican Party only if they are sure that it is not under the domination of Mr. Hoover...