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...night of March 3, 1933 and all the following day brought an avalanche of news to editors' desks throughout the land. Herbert Hoover was leaving the White House. Franklin Roosevelt was going in. ... Banks all over the country were being closed by decree. ... A wild stockmarket. . . . Jehol fell to the Japanese. . . . Mayor Cermak was dying. . . . President Roosevelt asked extraordinary powers. . . . Extra session to deal with banks...
...Economist, and he expounded many arresting theories, among them the theory of the New Era: that profits and prices were going on & on and up & up. He was joint author of several books showing how depressions could be ended forever by just buying and buying. President Hoover read his book, The Road to Plenty...
...Washington. On April 14 the identification division of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation had 3,540,784 records of criminals and Federal civil service employes. It receives 2,200 (average) new prints daily, satisfies 45% of the queries it receives concerning arrested, dead and witless citizens. John Edgar Hoover (no kin), Director of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation, does not want his identification division considered a miraculous detective bureau. Says he, contrary to fictioneers: "Since the . . . system utilizes all ten fingers for the classification and filing of prints, it is extremely difficult for the bureau to identify latent...
...general it may be said that Economics. A is not a difficult course for the student endowed with ordinary intelligence. The value of the subject is undisputed. As an instructor in another course remarked during the Hoover administration, "The great trouble with Congress is that it is composed of men who have never taken History 1 or Economics...
...November 1932 he demanded the re-election of Herbert Hoover, declared that if President Hoover had not stood "as courageously as stood Foch at Verdun"-the Democrats "would have put us off the gold basis and the bony arm of the skeleton of Inflation would today be filching value from every savings bank account, every insurance policy and every wage envelope...