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Thus did Variety, periodical of the show business, last week headline a new collection of basic statistics: In eleven months Franklin D. Roosevelt saw 83 feature cinemas, 73 "short subjects" and 500 reels of news. The total (1,327) was four times as many as seen by Herbert Hoover, five times as many as by Calvin Coolidge. 18% more than the estimated average mean consumption of "rabid type" cinemaddicts in a similar period. Two pictures President Roosevelt had exhibited twice at the White House: The Fighting President, a compilation of newsreel shots of himself, and Gabriel Over The White House...
Fundamentally this seemed no great crime. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover were never accused of bribery-by-belly when they hauled hollow-eyed politicians out of bed to attend early breakfasts at the White House and listen to Presidential persuasion. But Britain took the Churchill charge seriously. Grave under his wig, Speaker the Rt. Hon. Captain Edward Algernon Fitzroy allowed the resolution to be passed, without vote, to the Committee on Privilege for investigation...
Only less sensational than the Howes testimony was the testimony that the "friendly cooperation" of Mark L. Requa, Republican National Committeeman from California and close friend of Herbert Hoover, had been enlisted by Cord's Century Air Lines in 1931 in a campaign to obtain airmail contracts. Placed in evidence was a letter in which Cord had written to his able First Lieutenant Lucius Bass Manning: "Requa seems to think ... it is a cinch that Postmaster General Brown is going to bow to him and definitely says he has the power and will call Brown on the carpet...
...Republican pupil of the late Robert Marion La Follette, John Elaine supported the Presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson (1912), Senator La Follette (1924). Alfred Emanuel Smith (1928), Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed him to the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., formation of which he had opposed under President Hoover...
...source of deepest pleasure that at last a legitimate crime can figure as one of the episodes of this column. The crime in question, perpetrated against a denizen of the Dunster House, is almost worthy of the attentions of the Federal Government's J. Edgar Hoover and his crack band of college trained sleuths. The fact that it is still shrouded in mystery can detract little from the story itself...