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...voted for: Power Trust investigation (1928), Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1929, 1930, 1933), Hoover Moratorium (1931), Bonus (1932, 1933, 1934), Relief (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), Copper Tariff (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Repeal (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934). Stock Exchange Control (1934), 16-to-1 Silver Amendment (1934)., Overriding Philippine Independence Veto...
...Fortnight ago President Roosevelt offered George Akerson, President Hoover's first secretary, a $6,000 job as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (TIME, Sept. 17). Last week Mr. Akerson turned it down because he had obtained another job with "much greater security for my family's future...
...guns to Poland from Driggs to Vickers. Even before Britain had recovered from its shocked horror at this statement other big names came tumbling out into the open. In a few days other arms salesmen had dragged in: Edward of Wales (obstructing Curtiss-Wright sales to South America); Herbert Hoover (as an antidote for H. R. H.); President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez of Argentina; Juan Leguia, son of the late president of Peru; Brig. General Juan F. Azcarate Pino, military attaché of the Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez...
...second time President Roosevelt gave a job to one of Herbert Hoover's aides. Riding to the Capitol for the inauguration on March 4, 1933, President Hoover asked his successor to find a job for White House Secretary Walter Newton. President Roosevelt named Newton to the Home Loan Bank Board for one year (TIME, June 19, 1933). Last week President Roosevelt named George Akerson, President Hoover's first secretary, to a $6,000 job as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. Du Pont owns 23% of GM's common stock and any outward sign of management ructions is always attributed to a clash between the du Ponts and the Fishers-usually with a sly reference to the fact that the Fishers backed Hoover in 1928 and the du Ponts backed Smith. That a polite tussle for the GM reins has been going on for months is no secret. But just what connection that had with the withdrawal by Fishers last week, no one who knew would...