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...Whitehead, who was nominating somebody for something in the Tenth Assembly District. Barbara Hutton Mdivani. Doris Duke and Gloria Baker came in for some stern kidding in a ribald song. Imogene Coca made a sprightly and naughty Salvation Army lassie. Meeting at a Girl Scout affair, Mrs. Hoover and Mrs. Roosevelt had some acid things to say to each other...
...Hoover: I believe Herbert met your husband in Washington, but he didn't quite catch the name...
When President Roosevelt seized his new issue, he was flying off at no radical tangent. He had the conservative precedent of Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, all of whom piously urged that the profits be taken out of war. A War Policies Commission headed by Republican Secretary of War Hurley drafted such a plan (TIME, May 25, 1931). It called for freezing prices during war and establishing taxes that would take 95% of any man's or corporation's war profits in excess of his average for the previous three years. It also called for drafting all man power?which...
Despite this original intention by the Attorney General, his crime conference jogged along the well-trodden path of its predecessors with conferees bobbing up & down to make familiar suggestions. Director J. Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Division of Investigation wanted an end to "political pressure" on enforcement agencies. Commissioner H. J. Anslinger of the Treasury's Bureau of Narcotics, whose men over the previous weekend had rounded up 793 dope dealers and addicts, proposed special wards in county sanatoriums to cure criminal and noncriminal drug addicts. Miss Dorothy Frooks of Peekskill, N. Y., denounced...
...Blue Vase, Sorrento, House in Montmartre, Breton Market. But in 1929 he radically changed his style. From his palette issued a series of rolling, tree-dotted Iowa fields done in a flat, smooth manner. His landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling of cultural dependence upon the older continent. To combat this attitude Wood hose irony. His American Gothic (see reproduction) and his spectacular Daughters...