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Henry Louis Mencken: Tweedledum and Tweedledee are still twins, even when one wears the cold mask of Hoover and the other the professional smile of Roosevelt. Herbert Hoover: We have complete confidence in the American people...
...fair to the people of Kansas" to neglect his job as Governor. Second place (20.8%) in the poll went to Senator Borah. That helped even less. Third place (13.2%) went to Colonel Frank Knox. Publisher Knox declined to take the risk. Fourth place (4.1%) went to Herbert Hoover. Mr. Hoover was not even asked. Fifth place (2.9%) went to Senator Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan. He asked to be excused. Sixth place (.6%) to Senator Lester Dickinson of Iowa, who said no thanks...
Chosen from among New Orleans debutantes to be Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora...
...talk was veering around from the urgent rumors fortnight ago that "Bumbler Baldwin" could not much longer remain Prime Minister, to the opposite notion that the Arms Boom is creating an elated situation in which, no matter what he does or says, he will be as popular as Herbert Hoover...
...Washington, with its acres of gleaming granite, its vistas of magnificent buildings, was a creation of the Hoover Administration (TIME, May 6, 1929). The only one of the new buildings actually completed before March 1933 was the Department of Commerce Building. Almost ready for occupancy at the change of administration was the nearby Department of Agriculture Building. It was equipped with the sort of mural that Congressional committees had been approving for Federal buildings since the British burned the U. S. Capitol: A great rectangle showing a number of buxom ladies swathed in cheesecloth, standing about a wheatfield (TIME, April...