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...Minister to the Dominican Republic R. Henry Norweb, the State Department's legal adviser, Green H. Hackworth, and its roving, wondrous Assistant Secretary Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.-Secretary Cordell Hull added an ingratiating prize package. To give Latin America its first look at a big Republican since Herbert Hoover's battleship visit of 1928, and to stress national unity, the Secretary named President-reject Alf M. Landon of Topeka, Kans...
...Choring similarly for Republicans, ex-President Hoover whose speeches this year have been larded with more than one lively wisecrack, retorted: "President Roosevelt said he would not let the people down. The time has come to let them...
...Because his radio style was criticized by Republican Herbert C. Hoover, who himself is no great radiorator, Republican Thomas E. Dewey goes to New York University's Speech Teacher Richard C. Rorden to brush up his microphone technique, reported "Daily Washington Merry-go-Round's" Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen. A baritone before he was a politician, Candidate Dewey is generally regarded as a professionally polished, dramatic broadcaster...
Browder, speaking last on the program, roused the audience to wild enthusiasm when he bitterly denounced the Munich Pact as "Not peace, but the New World War." Linking Herbert Hoover and Leverett Saltonstall with Hitler, he warned the audience of the danger of Fascist penetration into Latin America and urged all to cooperate with the Communist Party to save Democracy...
Arthur A. Ballautine '04, under-secretary of the Treasury under Hoover, and Joseph Clark Grew '02, ambassador to Japan, were also on the CRIMSON board with Hull, Roosevelt and Bulkley, he said...