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...last week percolated through the minds of professional G. O. Politicians: Franklin Roosevelt's press conference declaration for centralized Federal control of business (TIME, June 10) would somehow make them a cracker jack issue for 1936. On one of his cross-country pilgrimages to Republican shrines, Herbert Clark Hoover snatched at it like a starving man snatching at a crust of bread. At Des Moines, in his native Iowa, he asked the graduating class of Drake University: "Will government permit you to breathe the pure air of liberty in the spirit of the Bill of Rights?" Then, whisk...
...historic occasion. In 1928 Mr. Lowden was Herbert Hoover's chief rival for the Republican nomination. When the party platform at Kansas City went rankly reactionary, the progressive son-in-law of the late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover...
Whether he meant to or not, Mr. Hoover thereby injected one more catch-phrase into the forthcoming constitutional contest-"a change to a European form of government." Apparently the man who called Prohibition a "noble experiment" (literally "an experiment noble in motive") and who harped for four years on "rugged individualism" was already itching to get into a momentous fight, the form of which even Franklin Roosevelt, smart politician though he was. did not yet clearly perceive. It remained for Pundit Walter Lippmann. once a good friend of Herbert Hoover, to take most of the wind out of that Republican...
...Hoover's] statement . . . looks wishful in the light of the fact that there are no proposals to change to any other form of government. It does disclose Mr. Hoover's ambitions and his hopes: what a windfall it would be for an eager candidate of the opposition if only Mr. Roosevelt would propose to abolish the Federal Constitution! But it is the idea of an incurable amateur. Mr. Hoover must think that the President is as lacking in political insight as he is himself. He must think the President does not know that an amendment to turn over...
Meantime, Herbert Hoover, traveling eastward for a little fishing in Vermont, continued to make headlines by running into more Republican friends, including Governor Charles M. Smith; going to Plymouth, standing with bowed head at the grave of Calvin Coolidge...