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...goods and sold the U. S. $503,000,000 of her goods. In 1930 Mr. King was succeeded as Prime Minister by Richard Bedford Bennett, and under his Conservative Administration Canada began to follow the same Depression policy that the U. S. followed under President Hoover: piling up tariffs and trade restrictions to protect her shrinking home markets from imported goods. In 1933. when President Hoover retired. Canada bought only $210,000,000 of U. S. goods, sold only $185,000,000 of goods to the U. S. Not until last month, when Canada's Liberals were returned...
...York Herald Tribune and 92 other newspapers, and on Sunday in the Herald Tribune and 72 others, he croaks fearfully against the New Deal. He is an able analyst and expositor, well grounded in orthodox economics, a diligent, honest newsgatherer. But not even his great & good friend Herbert Hoover outdoes him in bemoaning the evil days on which the land has fallen, in prophesying worse days to come unless citizens return to the tried & true ways of their fathers. Last fortnight he characteristically gloomed: "So much of what is being done to America is tragic...
...leader. With the death of Roosevelt I, the crusading fervor went out of the Sullivan dispatches. His reports on the Harding and Coolidge Administrations were conscientious, uncritical, uninspired. Meantime Mr. & Mrs. Sullivan had become fast friends of another poor boy who had made good. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, and his wife. Many a Sunday evening the Sullivans walked around the corner from their Wyoming Avenue home to the Hoovers' house on S Street, helped entertain the Hoover friends. When, in 1929, the Hoovers moved to the big White House on Pennsylvania Avenue, the intimacy continued. Never have President...
...their contributions to appear, on page 40 of Vol. I, published in 1926. It is embodied in a footnote dropped from a sentence beginning: "The American temperament included adaptiveness, a willingness more prompt than among other peoples to dismiss the old and try the new. . . ." The footnote: "Mr. Herbert Hoover thinks this point should be emphasized. . . ." "The Twenties." Like its five best selling predecessors, "The Twenties" is lively, readable, honest, superficial, rich in color, anecdote and detail. Occasionally bumbling in literary style, it lacks coherence, is reflective but not philosophic. No great creative thinker, no intellectual delver into the remote...
Died. Frederick Shander Moody, 70, San Francisco businessman, father-in-law of Tennist Helen Wills Moody, uncle of Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr.; in San Francisco