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Nomination for Man of the Year: Herbert Clark Hoover: Statesman, clear-thinker, honest and fearless...
...were settled. Almost the only certain fact about the nominee remained that he would not be a Chinaman. But with full allowance for hell, high water and the half-year to come, professional Republican politicians and influential amateurs were more interested than ever in three names :Landon, Knox, Hoover...
...reasonably doubtful that the nation would have voted the 30th and 31st U. S. Presidents into office so enthusiastically if those gentlemen had previously changed their official names to J. Cal Coolidge and Herb C. Hoover. Nonetheless a stream of important visitors, interested in helping make a 33rd President of the U. S., made their way during the past fortnight to the door of the Kansas Governor who was christened Alfred and now calls himself Alf. In the Press the kind of build-up which experienced partisans know how to produce for a favorite made the Landon name loom larger...
Political bird dogs quivered at the scent of a Hoover-Landon deal week before last when John Hamilton, Republican National Committee general counsel, and the following Hoover associates trod on each other's heels at the Governor's mansion: one-time Vice President Charles Curtis; Mark L. Requa, California National Committeeman; Henry J. Allen, Kansas' onetime Governor and U. S. Senator; William M. Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt...
...Herbert Hoover's significance in the next election will be merely his influence on the Republican party, and he will not get the election Mr. Thomas believes...