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National President Lou Henry Hoover ("Buffalo") didn't show up, but Honorary President Eleanor Roosevelt popped into camp one day, found several girls picking goodies from their "nibble box." Slamming the lid shut, the girls leaped up and saluted. Before a pageant called "Hands Across the World," Mrs. Roosevelt made a speech affirming her interest in world peace: "Peace abroad depends on peace at home and kindly feeling for one another. . . . Learn to laugh. . . . We owe it to the world to preserve our sense of humor. 'All dictators,'" she quoted Biographer Emil Ludwig, " 'are gloomy...
...Institute, art impresario of the Century of Progress Exposition, grandnephew of the primordial Cyrus Hall McCormick. Chauncey McCormick who made his maiden political speech (''Save America") in the summer of 1935, is much more tolerant of radicalism in art than of radicalism in politics. When Mrs. Herbert Hoover was caught in a torrential rainstorm after inspecting the Century of Progress art show, gallant Mr. McCormick shooed a traffic officer from his corner to find a taxicab, directed traffic himself in the downpour while the officer was gone. Wisecrackers said that if it had been Mrs. Roosevelt instead...
With the possible exception of Herbert Hoover who became famed for other things, John Hays Hammond was the world's most famed mining engineer. From early youth he was familiar with horses, guns and gold mining. He mined gold with Cecil Rhodes, became an intimate of rulers and statesmen, a contented and hale old man in his last years. But his life once hung by a thread when, after the failure of the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, Hammond was sentenced to death by the Boers for conspiracy. The sentence was commuted and he got off with a fine...
...grey Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write all the good speeches for the President, his Cabinet...
Scrupulously Mr. Clark pointed out that his "visitors" would not constitute a link with the Federal Government. Having served the State Department for eleven years as solicitor, legal representative, Under Secretary (under Herbert Hoover) and finally as the late Dwight Morrow's successor as Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Clark well knows that any hint that his dunning agency was an arm of the U. S. Government would play ned with the New Deal's good neighbor foreign policy. Chief job of Mr. Clark's visitors will be to assure the public that the Council is not linked...