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...From Atlanta to Washington went Samuel Iredell Parker, 45-year-old employe of a textile dye company. There in the presence of his wife, sister, son, daughter and brother, U. S. Circuit Court Judge John J. Parker (see cut), whose nomination to the U. S. Supreme Court by President Hoover was rejected by the Senate six years ago (TIME, May 19, 1930), he gravely accepted from President Roosevelt the $2 Medal which made him the 1,825th person in U. S. history to receive this No. i award...
They were the bosses of the potent Kansas City Star, a traditionally Republican newspaper which had backed Democratic Governor Harry Woodring for re-election in 1932, made a prompt post-election switch to Winner Landon. Managing Editor Roy Roberts, one of Herbert Hoover's best newspaper friends in his days as the Star's able Washington correspondent, had gone to University of Kansas with Alf Landon. The manager of the Stars Kansas bureau, Lacy Haynes, who, as the shrewdest and best-informed political observer in Kansas, is popularly supposed to have dictated...
...months ago the titular head of the Republican Party, Herbert Hoover, not daring to risk defeat in his home state, but bent on having at least a strong voice in the convention, rallied a few potent cronies of the State's Republican machine and entered a delegation of convention candidates in California's primaries. Nominally pledged to Republican State Chairman Earl Warren, the delegation was well understood to be "uninstructed." In opposition to it, William Randolph Hearst put forward a delegation pledged to Alf M. Landon. Few days later he was joined by lightweight Governor Frank Merriam...
...takes two sides to make an issue, and in the California campaign which followed, Alf M. Landon was definitely not an issue. Puffed by Hearstpapers, he got courteous treatment, many a kind word from Hoover supporters. Their cry: Is William Randolph Hearst, a New York Democrat, to become master of California Republicanism? When California Republicans marched to the polls last week and said "no" by 344,000 votes to 256,000, that verdict was almost universally interpreted as a thoroughgoing rebuff to William Randolph Hearst and Frank F. Merriam...
Famed among mining engineers for two sober works, Concentrating Ores by Flo tation and Economics of Mining, Dean Hoover, like his brother, worked his way through Stanford, managed Burmese and Australian mines, followed his brother to London to make a tidy fortune as a stock promoter. In Palo Alto he lives with his wife in a comfortable house four blocks from Brother Herbert's. Engineer Hoo ver's three firmest tenets are that the world stands to suffer from a metal short age, that wars are inevitable, that such terms as "culinary engineer," "cosmetic engineer," "sales engineer...