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...Stanford classmates had seen Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the United States, in 1898, they wouldn't have known him either. At that time he was three years out of college, 24 years old, earning $7,500 a year as a mining engineer in Western Australia. That was good money before the year...
...Herbert Hoover had hardly been elected by his Stanford mates as the "graduate most likely to succeed." In college he had managed a student laundry and a newspaper agency. He had flunked German and English in the entrance exams, and didn't write off a con in English until his senior year. But this ponderous and solumn Iowan had introduced a scheme for handling athletic, social, and campus organization funds that eliminated waste and graft to a "T". Few people noticed that he was also a wizard with a slide rule and geology maps...
...years later his father took the family out of Kansas to prospect for oil wells, and one of his wells "came in." So in 1904, when son Alfenrolled at the University of Kansas, he didn't have to work his way through college, as had college men Knox, Hoover and Borah. Alf joined Phi Gamma Delta, the "rich boys fraternity" of his day at Kansas, and proceeded to make a reputation for himself of being stingy. He had the first tuxedo in town, yet be campaigned successfully to cut the ice cream course from the house menu. He fought hard...
Same day the Karpis-Campbell rewards were announced, Director Hoover received proof that not all Senators regard him and his work as does Tennessee's Kenneth Douglas McKellar, who as chairman of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee recently lopped $225,000 off the Bureau's 1937 appropriation increase recommended by a House committee, accused Director Hoover of "running wild" (TIME, April 27). Up in the Senate last week rose speaker after speaker to praise the Bureau of Investigation's work, insist that the $225,000 be put back in the appropriation bill. "I would not revive...
...Herbert Hoover used to go behind the backs of editors and reporters to complain to their publishers when news treatment did not suit him. Franklin Roosevelt is known to have achieved better results by approaching the news writers and editors behind their publishers' backs. Fortnight ago he entertained junketing members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors at the White House. There was exciting, off-the-record talks by Harry Hopkins and John Edgar Hoover and, when his turn came, the President told his charmed audience that he wished the nation's news could be presented without "color...