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Candidate Brucker harped on Senator Couzens' defection so much that he was nicknamed "The Toy Hoover." But even these harpings did not seem to damage the Couzens popularity in Michigan at first. Instead of grubbing for renomination in the primary campaign, the Senator rented a yacht, disdainfully went off fishing on the Great Lakes. His cause was still far from lost when he returned to shore last month. Then, against the advice of friends, he boldly announced: "Believing as I do that the most important matter confronting the nation is the re-election of President Roosevelt, I intend...
...Presidents to the White House in all but five elections since the Civil War, the venerable saw has gained currency, though not validity. It is not even true that as Maine goes, so goes Maine. In 1932 it elected a Democratic Governor and two Congressmen in September, went for Hoover in November. But because politicians believe that a September victory has a persuasive effect on voters throughout the land, both Parties regularly expend money and efforts on Maine's State election out of all proportion to its national importance...
When Herbert Hoover arrived in Manhattan to perform his duties as director of New York Life Insurance Co., a reporter for the pro-New Deal New York Daily News cornered him in the New York Life Building, asked him if he agreed with Nominee Knox's statement...
...That's politics," said Mr. Hoover, "and I can't talk politics in an insurance office...
...Francisco the Dollar liner President Hoover was held in port by strikers, while 471 passengers fumed and $1,000,000 in mail and cargo waited, because tne Line refused to rehire a 25-year-old seaman named Charles Brenner. On the voyage from Honolulu Brenner headed a group of sailors who complained that Captain George Yardley had violated sea safety laws by putting out with hatches open, booms hanging overside, four lifeboats dismantled. When the ship was ready to sail from San Francisco for the Orient, 50 members of her deck-crew refused to sign on unless Seaman Brenner were...