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...tenants of the White House -Mrs. Thomas J. Preston Jr. (formerly Cleveland), Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert Clark Hoover, and also Mrs. Benjamin Harrison who never was a tenant*-were sent invitations last week to attend the second inaugural of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jan. 20. The political sympathies of few if any of the invitees would lead them to attend, but if they declined they would miss an opportunity to see the present tenant of the White House in his best form. For last week he entered...
...gives interviews. For 54 of his 72 years, Chief Moran had helped guard U. S. Presidents' lives and the nation's securities and currency. Head of the department since 1918, he successfully shouldered the grave responsibility for the safety of Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt. Due to retire at 70, Chief Moran's tenure had twice been prolonged by President Roosevelt's decree. It could be prolonged no further...
...entirely clear. Your instructions will be followed. We are ready-Ann." With snow and subfreezing temperatures descending on the Northwest, police and G-Men, fearing for the safety of young Charles, who was lightly clothed and wearing bedroom slippers, reentered the case in earnest. From Washington Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the F. B. I. sent his chief assistant, Harold Nathan, to take charge...
...course of his historical survey the failure of capitalism to live up to its own early standards and promises: liberalism, free trade, world organization, peace, and prosperity, to name a few which it has betrayed. Although the world appears to be making a gradual turn around Mr. Hoover's favorite corner toward better times, there is vast wreckage just behind us and still with us are millions of un-employed, to leave aside the larger number of millions who are habitually existing in stark poverty. Out of the poverty of capitalism there is fast growing a new armaments race...
That afternoon the old friction between local and Federal law enforcement agencies flared up at its hottest. First anonymously, then in the person of hardboiled, up-from-the-ranks Commissioner Lewis J. Valentine, New York's police officials filled the newspapers with charges that G-Man Hoover had broken his agreement with them and, purely to make headlines and grab all the credit, had endangered the lives of bystanders and firemen by his unnecessary gunplay...