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...other words Mr. Hoover is acquiring "what it takes" to get votes. On February 13 his performance was superb. He carried up from the floor terrific hay makers, in the use of which he has always been adept, and interspersed these with quick, deadly rabbit-punches-those novel ironic sallies which are extraordinarily effective politically because they provoke mirth. This style of debate Lincoln knew well; Hoover seems to be learning...
...does not need to be a camp-follower of Hoover to delight in his recent political exhibitions, which add great zest to already stirring issues. The possible effects demand some sort of estimate. We should not forget that in 1932 he received the biggest minority vote in history. As a probable indication of the way his thoughts are tending, it is not out of order to inspect his flattering mention of Cleveland-the only president to make a come-back after being defeated. Certainly this much rises out of the mist of Republican politics-Hoover recently has become much stronger...
...office which he won as Herbert Hoover's running-mate in 1928 overwhelmed this onetime jockey and grandson of a Kaw Indian with a vast new selfimportance. He presided over the Senate with imposing dignity, began making dull speeches on all public occasions. Punctilious in his role as the Capital's No. 1 diner-out, he allowed his exuberant half-sister and official hostess to make a finish fight of her war for social precedence with the Speaker's lady, Alice Roosevelt Longworth. "Call me Mr. Vice President," he commanded his oldtime friends...
Thus did Idaho's Borah become the first Republican Presidential candidate of 1936. Reason for the Borah announcement was that onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Toledo, friend of Herbert Hoover, and other members of the Old Guard in Ohio were preparing to enter a "favorite son" in the Ohio primaries so that they could take Ohio's votes to the Republican convention in their pockets. Senator Borah, by his own candidacy, aimed to forestall them...
Petitioning a California court for permission to invest part of its endowment in common stocks, Stanford University introduced as a witness Trustee Herbert Hoover. At a San Jose hearing Trustee Hoover testified: "The trustees of Stanford University . . . are now confronted with a grave problem. . . . For 50 years much prudence and wisdom have caused the trustees to invest the endowment, now amounting to some $24,000,000, in seasoned bonds and first mortgages. . . . The devaluation of the dollar, the widespread bank credit inflation and the possible menace of currency inflation are the new factors with which the trustees must deal...