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When in 1931 President Hoover said, "No one is going hungry," he was expressing nothing more than a pious hope. It was definitely not a promise because he was unwilling to back his words with Federal funds. In the Hoover philosophy such a move was "un-American," therefore unthinkable. It was also unnecessary. Hungry U. S. citizens had always been fed by the private charity of their fellows. In Herbert Hoover's own experience as relief administrator that charity had overflowed to care for hungry Belgians, hungry Russians, hungry Americans caught in the Mississippi flood. Remembering the past...
Other eyes saw the burden of misery growing, saw private charity breaking down in city after city, county after county, state after state. On every side voices, angry or august, cried that the situation was unparalleled, demanding unparalleled action. But Herbert Hoover clung to the philosophy of the good neighbor, continued to translate it into official do-nothingness. It was for this, in no small measure, that millions of citizens rose up in November 1932 to sweep him from office...
...face of these stark facts that some 200 civic leaders and social workers gathered in Washington last week to launch the Fourth Mobilization for Human Needs, super-campaign of propaganda for all private charities. At its head, as he had been under President Hoover, was able, eloquent Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland, Wartime Secretary of War. The mobilizers gathered first on the White House lawn for a greeting from the President. His job was difficult: to steer the sentiment of the country back to the Hoover philosophy of voluntary giving while continuing the Roosevelt practice of direct relief based...
...those used in the kidnap ladder. In Washington the Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman and a "stoop-shouldered man" who might have been accomplices...
...YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE-Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover-Houghton Mifflm ($3.50). The ex-Chief Usher of the White House tells all. Scrappy but good reading...