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...three-quarters of a million short of the goal but around $100,000 over last year's total. Another great salesman, Adman Albert D. Lasker, was using his skill to lure $3,000,000 out of Chicago pockets. With the same thunderous eloquence with which he nominated Herbert Hoover for President in 1932, beetle-browed Lawyer Joseph Scott whipped Los Angeles on toward a precise $3,094,805. Active patron of Philadelphia's campaign for $3,752,000 was onetime Senator George Wharton Pepper. Milwaukee wanted $1,113,248 and big, hearty President Michael Joseph Cleary of Northwestern...
...Mary Hoover, who had worked with Luis Quintanilla on some of his Madrid frescoes, brought a heavy package of etched zinc plates to the U. S. Author Hemingway paid for pulling a small edition of proofs, and Pierre Matisse was glad to give them a Manhattan showing. John Dos Passos wrote a short, able introduction to the catalog. Ernest Hemingway, still hot under his size 16 collar, pounded out a 1,500-word essay that described his friend's plight, his art, and formed a collector's item. Excerpt...
...peace seemed the last thing the New Dealers wanted to grant him. Mr. Hoover vanished from the scene to Palo Alto. Mr. Stimson went inconspicuously back to his Manhattan law practice. Mr. Wilbur once more became active president of Leland Stanford. All the Hoover Cabinet was politically forgotten-except Mr. Mellon. For years the Democrats had yipped about his administration of the Treasury...
...whole co-operative drive. It resolved that "utterances by the President encourage the belief...that he is receptive of suggestions for promotion of the common welfare." It pledged "fullest co-operation." It appointed a Recovery committee headed by none other than Silas Hardy Strawn, Chamber president under Herbert Hoover and die-hard New Deal critic. Within two days, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, still pinching itself incredulously, found itself the leader of the whole current business drive to put men and money back to work before Congress meets...
...debts to those folks who carried us so long. We mended the fences, painted the barn, chinked up the cracks in the roof....Then we got around to the house and painted that." Another farmer walked into a bookshop with a wad of bills, demanded five copies of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty...