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...Captain Warms told Assistant Director Dickerson N. Hoover that the Morro Castle's automatic fire alarm system had failed to work. " This statement was not made. During the testimony of Captain Warms on Monday, Sept 10, Mr. Crone asked Captain Warms if the automatic alarm registered. Captain Warms answered that it registered when flames existed on A deck. Mr. Crone asked whether fire was in the staterooms at that time and Captain Warms replied: "Yes, in staterooms on A deck, port side...
...Bernard Baruch, as head of the War Industries Board, was absolute dictator of U. S. business, an even greater autocrat than Hugh Johnson became under NRA. As generous with his advice and counsel to Republicans as to Democrats, Mr. Baruch was from time to time useful to the Hoover Administration. When Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington, "Bernie" Baruch was slated to be a trusted White House economic observer. "I am a speculator." he said once, "and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe." In June 1933, the hawk-eyed financier...
...President's recent fireside talk which has been so hardly dealt with in the conservative Boston press, was motivated, after a long period of silence, by the greatest concert of protest since the latter months of the Hoover administration. There can be no doubt that it was this outcry that called forth the speech, and similarly there can be no doubt that Mr. Roosevelt is well informed of the extent of the outcry, but whether the Boston Tories secure in a brass-bound provincialism, are well aware of the currents of thought elsewhere in the country can fairly be doubted...
...speech. He referred to Franklin's statement that wealth was acquired by honest, hard work. But he failed to add that one of Franklin's famous maxims was: "A penny saved is a penny earned". If he had done this, however, he would have contradicted the policy which Herbert Hoover's administration initiated and what Franklin Roosevelt's administration is continuing; namely, that of encouraging the American citizen to get rich by spending. Fortunately, however, our President probably realized that Franklin's coffin was too small to permit of rolling over within its confines. V. H. Kramer...
During the twelve years of Republican rule no railroad executive was more popular in Washington than Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of Baltimore & Ohio. Over his line Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover rode on most of their trips and often in "Uncle Dan's" own private car. The White House door was constantly swinging open to him for Presidential conferences on railroad problems. His name, as spokesman for his industry, could be found on practically every list of tycoons picked by the President to do this or that public job. The country had every reason to believe that grey-haired...