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...because an Indiana governor cannot succeed himself, he would like a seat in the Cabinet, is typical of Franklin Roosevelt's new patronage problem. For this year a new generation of deserving Democrats lays claim to jobs which cannot be supplied by the simple process of ousting Hoover Republicans as they were in 1932. Moreover, Franklin Roosevelt has committed himself to a thorough reorganization of the Government...
...city detectives had gone around the corner for a cup of coffee at 1:15 a. m. on the appointed day, when Chief John Edgar Hoover suddenly appeared with ten G-men, proposed an immediate raid. Refusing to wait for police headquarters to be notified, the No. 1 G-man and his squad rapped on Brunette's door, got a splatter of bullets for answer. For an hour they pumped revolver, rifle and submachine-gun bullets, tossed tear gas bombs into the apartment. Its Venetian blinds ignited. Firemen came, and were caught in the cross fire between desperado...
...attend a trustees' meeting of the Carnegie Institution, Herbert Hoover returned to Washington for the first time since March...
...Hoover took up the theorem most recently enunciated by the Brookings Institute in Washington-that the trouble with Capitalism is capitalists...
...convinced," said Engineer Hoover, whose own great days were boom days, "that when we fully understand the economic history of the period of the Twenties, we shall find that the debacle which terminated at the end of another apparently highly prosperous period was largely contributed to by the failure of industry to pass its improvement-through labor-saving devices-on to the consumer...