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...fought and broke Albert Fall's Republican machine. In 1924 he helped elect a Democratic Senator, Sam Bratton, and in 1926 a Republican Governor, Richard C. Dillon. Following year Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator he fought the Hoover policies in Washington and the Republican machine in New Mexico. Having helped to elect Roosevelt, he broke with Democrats and last autumn fought the Democratic ma-chine of Postmaster Farley...
...held that laudable social aims are no substitute for constitutionality. A man with such beliefs might be the leader whom Republicans desired. Was he not, they asked, only 60, a good age for a candidate? Had this Philadelphia lawyer not received the cachet of approval from Presidents Coolidge and Hoover? Had he not struck up a fine friendship with the Press while prosecuting the Teapot Dome oil cases? Had he not voted with the Supreme Court's liberals in nine out of 13 5-to-4 decisions, voted with the conservatives the four remaining times? A sound political balance...
...military mission, and in particular Marshal Foch's favorite, dapper little General Maxime Weygand, that turned the Bolsheviks from the gates of Warsaw in one of the decisive battles of modern times. Later in Warsaw he became intimate with two men destined to go far, Relief Administrator Herbert Hoover, and Mgr. Achille Ratti, who became Pope of Rome...
Measured by the Dow-Jones industrial stock averages, the low point of the Depression was July 8, 1932. On that day the famed stockmarket index sank below 42, lowest level since 1897. After a deal of marching and countermarching in the last days of Herbert Hoover, the stock-market burst upward in the wild inflationary bull market of 1933, and, just before the boom in whiskey shares collapsed that summer, the averages...
Raised in Richmond, Va. where his father was a merchant, Partner Strauss was an aide-de-camp to Herbert Hoover in France and Belgium during the War. What is more he is still a stanch Hoover friend and admirer. The late Mortimer Schiff met Mr. Strauss in Paris, asked him to work for Kuhn, Loeb. He was made a partner in 1929 at the age of 33. Like many a past Kuhn, Loeb partner who was not the son of a partner, Partner Strauss married a partner's daughter-in this case Jerome Hanauer's Alice...