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Charles Hoyt March, 66, a Hoover appointee reappointed by President Roosevelt; handsome, heavyset, a onetime lawyer whose particular hate is monopolies. His pet case at the moment is the Cement Institute (TIME, July 12). Colonel March's FTC specialty is the legal...
Liberal young Lawyer Garrison crusaded against shyster ambulance chasers and bankruptcy grafters in New York City in the late 19205, was called by President Herbert Hoover to undertake national bankruptcy studies for the Department of Justice in 1930. President Roosevelt called him to be chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934, later a member of the short-lived Federal Mediation Board for the steel strike. His decision in the Houde case (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), ruling that representatives of the majority could bargain for all employes, has since become the Wagner Act's chief Labor weapon. Wisconsin...
Five years ago when Herbert Hoover was President and the U. S. was worried about government deficits, Congress passed an economy bill. Its economies have long since been lost in the shuffle of the New Deal, but one of its provisions, relating not to economy but to spreading work, remains in force: Section 213 decrees that when dismissals from the Government service are made, the first to be fired shall be those who have either a husband or a wife on the payroll. Under it 1,835 employes have been dismissed, 80% of them wives. Loud have been the chants...
...first began to spoil starched dinner parties by discoursing on the inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia...
...weed encircled by a gold ring. Looking inside she saw the name Zachary Lansdowne. Thus, twelve years after the crash of the U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was found the Annapolis class ring of its dead commander. The Navy Department and Commander Lansdowne's friend J. Edgar Hoover had been trying to find the ring since 1925, get it back to his widow, who has since remarried...