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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the wobbling governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared in the first days of peace. Through ten of those 20 years he had been Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce organizer of Mississippi flood relief. His reputation as a humanitarian and an administrator was unequalled. Through the next ten years that reputation had been overlaid by another: he had been...
Philosophy. Time was when listening to Herbert Hoover was a role for the intellectuals and the economists. In his devastating The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Economist John Maynard Keynes had harsh judgments to make on most of the public men of the post-War days. But of Herbert Hoover he wrote: "This complex personality . . . with his habitual air of an exhausted prizefighter . . . imported into the Councils of Paris . . . precisely that atmosphere of reality, knowledge, magnanimity and disinterestedness which, if they had been found in other quarters as well, would have given us the Good Peace...
...stored" until the guest arrives. The cheapest wine comes to $4 per bottle by this system, the cheapest whiskey $5. In the World War II bottle party boom, Mayfair clubs are now offering elaborate and sexy floor shows (see cuts), causing some wonder at London's Picture Post's observation that "the atmosphere is rather like that of a family party where the younger girls are in tearing spirits and occasionally do the splits or snatch a cigar from uncle's mouth. Everyone is out to be as naughty as possible, but it is a very schoolboyish...
...apprenticed to Munich Photographer Heinrich Hoffman, the Führer's old friend and official photographer, who was an acquaintance of the Braun family. A vivacious blonde, she used to mix cocktails and play the accordion for Hitler and the struggling Nazi group. "Today," says the Post, "Evi considers her accordion undignified and plays only the mandolin...
...chief interest is still in art of one sort or another," according to the Post. "She has nimble fingers and her latest hobby is making rag dolls out of scraps of materials; also dogs and more fantastic animals. . . . Hitler also favors Evi's special Thuringian potato dumplings...