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...Francisco 68 with $1,813,530, in Los Angeles 123 with $273,408, in Portland, Ore. 167 with $193,132. Secretary Woodin turned the list, by no means complete, over to Attorney General Cummings to check up. Director John Edgar Hoover of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, flashed orders to his 22 district offices to put every available one of his 350 Government agents on the job. Even the Federal sleuth who for weeks had been guarding the secret records of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee's investigation of J. P. Morgan & Co. was transferred...
...motored to the Capitol on March 4 for the inaugural of his successor, President Hoover turned anxiously to Franklin Roosevelt with a personal patronage problem. It had to do with Walter Hughes Newton of the White House secretariat. Born & bred in Minneapolis, Mr. Newton had been elected in 1918 to the House where by his wits he had worked himself up to a position of Republican importance. When Mr. Hoover took office in 1929, he felt the need for better contacts with the House leadership, persuaded Representative Newton to resign his seat and join the White House staff...
Would it be asking too much of the new President, asked the old President, to give Mr. Newton a job? Why, of course not. The new President would be glad to take care of the old President's special friend. President Hoover looked happy for the first and only time on that ride up Capitol Hill. Last week President Roosevelt kept his March 4 promise by appointing Mr. New ton to be a Republican member of the moribund Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The job pays $9,000 per year. Though Nebraska's Norris called the nomination...
Motoring home to Palo Alto, Herbert Hoover stopped at a filling station in Los Banos, noticed a cat stalking something under a street light...
...card advertising, virtually declared himself bankrupt. He did not use the exact word. What he said was that he could not pay all his debts immediately and wanted a moratorium. He thus became first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the new bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed the day before he left office...