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...youth he helped secure for Belgium the vast territory that now holds her famed copper mines. A born empire builder. Emile Francqui was soon serving his country elsewhere. In China where he went as economic adviser to the Government he met a young U. S. engineer named Herbert Hoover. Some years later, during the World War, he was Herbert Hoover's chief coadjutor in distributing Belgian relief. After the War his contacts with the U. S. multiplied. He was a member of the Belgian debt mission to the U. S., a member of the committee that formulated the Young...
...results of the work come through they will be published in the CRIMSON along with further tabulation from the national figures of the Roosevelt poll. The country so far has gone very much for Roosevelt and it will be interesting to watch how Harvard, which was strongly for Hoover, in the CRIMSON'S 1932 straw vote will feel two years later. When the vote is published a comparative set of figures on the earlier straw vote will be printed in order that the two sets may be contrasted...
...point either to fascism or communism. He inclines to discount most of the good results of the New Deal either as "artificial" or on the grounds that they were inevitable or (as he rather convincingly points out in several instances) had already been put in operation by President Hoover. While he at no point attacks President Roosevelt and in fact often refers warmly to his sincerity and ability to resurrect public hope, the many quotations from the President's campaign speeches constitute perhaps the most violent damnation that the book contains. It makes fascinating reading to peruse such excerpts...
...socialistic tendencies ruin his chance to make a hole in one. He saw it was his opportunity to show that monopoly and big business were reigning supreme. It was too much for the old criminal lawyer and the result was an outburst of vituperation which would make even Mr. Hoover wince. While there is some cause for his claims, the prejudice used in presenting them makes them practically useless...
...University of Minnesota. Other Commissioners include: Ada Louise Comstock, president of Radcliffe College; Isaiah Bowman, director of American Geographical Society, Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, Columbia historian. One of four who refused to sign the report was University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam. Like the Hoover Committee on Recent Social Trends, whose researches it found useful, the Commission began its survey in 1929. Financed by several hundred thousand Carnegie Corporation dollars and aided by scores of investigators, its announced purpose was to map the present and chart the future of social studies (history, political science, economics...