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...attacking the new trade agreement with Canada ex-President Hoover is once again showing his habitual narrowness and complete lack of imagination. As if determined to bring his attacks on the New Deal into the limelight at any price, the man from Palo Alto in a not altogether successful attempt at humor described the treaty as "the more abundant life--for Canadians...
...fact that in 1929 the United States imported more goods than ever before. The magic of the numbers 1929 in the American mind needs no emphasis, and perhaps this statistic can be made the "open Sesame" to a more sympathetic acceptance of the Canadian pact. As Mr. Hoover said, those affected by the new rates were not heard. They certainly will be now. Whether Mr. Roosevelt likes it or not, he will hear from them, and in loud tones, but it is hoped the government will ignore individual interests for the common good...
Whatever may be said about the New Deal, the efforts of President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull to increase the trade of the United States and to drag the country out from behind the fences she has raised, promise to be to the permanent credit of the administration. Mr. Hoover's quip about the "more abundant life" is an indication of the shallow thought behind his attack. The man who coined the phrase, "Prosperity is just around the corner," should look before he leaps on another man's catchword...
...Mark Sullivan's living-room bookcase now stands a foot-high memento of one such trip-an inscribed photograph of President Hoover happily hauling in a whopper (see cut, p. 41). But his relations with Herbert Hocver as President are not yet history to Mark Sullivan, and he will discuss them only casually...
...open partiality against the warring aggressor." By stationing a permanent diplomat at Geneva and keeping in close touch with London and Paris, Professor Hopper claimed that the United States could more consistently work with the League of Nations and not play "the lone wolf as we did in the Hoover Moratorium...