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...opponents of Warren Harding had no high opinion of that President. The opponents of Calvin Coolidge were scornful of his intellect. The opponents of Herbert Hoover despised his political bungling, sneered at his false prophecies. But the outstanding development of the last year is that Franklin Roosevelt's opponents now hate him with profound passion. The depth of this bitterness is shown by the excesses of the Liberty League and its allies, by the vast number of wholly malicious rumors attacking the President, by the flood of crank letters which go to the White House. The actual number...
Fortnight ago lively Director John Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped briskly before the Senate Appropriations subcommittee to plead for an increase of $1,025,000 in his organization's 1937 spending money. Kidnapping would sweep the country again, he said, if one cent were slashed from the proposed amount. Promptly Tennessee's McKellar launched a blistering attack on the Bureau for strong-arm methods, swell-headedness. "It seems to me," the vociferous Senator snapped, "your department is just running wild." Evidently more impressed by Senator McKellar than by Director Hoover, the subcommittee sliced...
Wild indeed ran Director Hoover's G-Men last week. As if timed to induce Congress to change its mind about next year's appropriation, the Bureau put on an intensive blood-&-thunder show which made blacker headlines than any similar period of activity since the big gangster hunt...
...Kenneth Galbraith, J. R. Walsh, John M. Cassels, Edgar M. Hoover '28, and Charles C. Abbott '28, instructors in Economics, are the men considering changes in Economics A. This committee meets today to draw up an outline which would give coherence to the entire course. This new outline will be constructed on the basis of what would be desirable for the course without regard for existing texts...
...Roosevelt with all the vituperative power at his command, David Lawrence, noted Washington correspondent, has charged the Administration with trying to censor his column. When a G. O. P. authority mentioned Lawrence's name among a list of prominent syndicated writers, Charlie Michelson, Democratic hero of the 1932 "smear Hoover" campaign, immediately dubbed him a Republican hireling, and hence unworthy to interpret the news. Resenting Administrative hostility and scenting a plot to strangle independent newsmen, Lawrence has raised a long and justifiable howl...