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...Page 8 Chief J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation observed: "The average layman likes to believe that he could be an expert in solving crimes. But as with any other profession, only a small percentage of those who rate themselves qualified are fitted for criminal investigation." On Page 72, an old-fashioned advertisement urged: BE A DETECTIVE Earn big money Work home or travel Experience unnecessary
...nomination was one Roy Harrop's Farmer-Labor Party.* Favorite candidate of most delegates was Huey Long but he lost the nomination by his absence from the convention. Therefore the party renominated its 1932 nominee, Jacob Sechler Coxey, who three years ago took 7,309 votes from Roosevelt, Hoover and Thomas, who four years ago was elected Mayor of Massillon, Ohio (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931), who 41 years ago led his "Army" of 356 unemployed to Washington and got arrested for walking on the grass...
...exercise except mowing the lawn a bit. When the first drop of perspiration runs down his nose, he quits. He has eight children, four of whom work for the Times. He is still at 71 a good trader. A rock-ribbed Republican and great personal friend of Herbert Hoover, he made Democratic Los Angeles pay him well for the inconvenience of moving one block up First Street last week into the fine new Times building...
Pool Unplugged, Like Herbert Hoover's hapless Federal Farm Board, the Dominion Pool was created to solve a problem that looked simple, on paper. Since Canada produces about 400,000,000 bu. of wheat annually and consumes only 110,000,000 bu., all the pool had to do was to buy surplus wheat from Dominion farmers and, after a little good-humored waiting, sell it abroad at its own price. Trouble was that Canada does not control the wheat export market single handed. While the pool sat on its wheat waiting for the right price, European bread-eaters bought their...
...thought differently was Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett. The portly, pious Herbert Hoover of Canada uprose in the House of Commons to sputter: "There is no intention that this country should offer its surplus of grain at fire-sale prices or throw its surplus on the markets of the world so long as this Government exists." But recognizing that his belated New Dealish Government may go out of existence at the general election next autumn, Prime Minister Bennett added: ''It may well be that other policies may prevail, but they will prevail at the expense of this country...