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Hearing cheers that greeted Herbert Hoover's arrival at Grand Central Terminal, Manhattan, a woman pushed through the crowd to a trainman, asked: "Who is that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 23, 1936 | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...Herbert Hoover's name also carries weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Victory | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...business under New York State's strict insurance laws. Engineered by his able, honest managers, the election of the world's best black boxer to the Victory board was not primarily dictated by a desire for the benefit of his business judgment, any more than was Herbert Hoover's election to the board of New York Life. Among certain groups of U. S. insurance prospects both names carry considerable weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Victory | 3/23/1936 | See Source »

...with Herbert Hoover, a notable change in the past three years has come over the public demeanor of Professor Albert Einstein. Whereas he was once almost as frozen and frightened in the presence of strangers and newshawks as was the onetime President of the U. S., the German mathematician now chuckles, gestures, jokes, smokes in public with considerable self-assurance. Last May Dr. Einstein made the short journey from Princeton to Philadelphia to receive the Franklin Medal of the Franklin Institute. A throng of scientists and dignitaries was assembled to hear what the medalist had to say. Einstein genially informed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eienstein's Reality | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

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