Hoover: The Shoddy Material of a "Hero"

...The timbers crack and crumble all over the world...

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...I Detroit Socialists Protest Ford Massacre DETROIT...

...He never acquired a degree In engineering as there was no course In this subject at Stanford in those days...

...Cool-idge was an accident, an undesired child in the Republican family with a third-reader mind that regarded the production of profits as a religious ceremony...

...It does not appear that Hoover had learned to write even good Knglish while a student...

...Nansen who evidently was aware of Hoover's White Guard sympathies and independently of Hoover raised a large sum for genuine relief...

...It was this fact that induced Senator Gore at the Democratic convention in 1928 to say that Hoover "intends to take out his first papers" before November...

...From the time of his appearance In Australia the go-getter unfolds from year to year to the time of his election as President of the United States when he is a millionaire several times over...

...I iiion Health Center Completes 15th Year Within n fow weeks the Dental Department of the Union Health Center will have completed fifteen years of service to the members of organized labor and their families...

...The servioeB given by this department have more than Justified the existence of the Center...

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...Perhaps It is fitting that our hero's outlook on life was shaped In the Stanford incubator for Leland Stanford who founded it was one of a quartet of railroad pirates that Included Huntington...

...He asserts that Hoover was heavily interested in a corporation with vast properties in Russia which had been nationalized and negotiations were being conducted by one of its agents and the Soviet authorities for a settlement...

...One of the most recent improvements in the work of the Union Health Center i* the installation of a fully equipped testing laboratory...

...Twilight sets In and through the murk the promoter can be seen urging that funds be fed to bankers and corporation magnates but that no food be fed to hungry millions except from the private alms bags of his backers...

...Wilson's mask was the "New Freedom" which proved to be gags and jails...

...The Michigan Socialists urged the purpose of the parade was peaceable, and the affair could have been handled without trouble, had not the police officers attacked the demonstrators upon very slight, if any provocation, the local Socialists declare...

...It is suggested that those who suffer from hay fever should register Cw as nearly testing helps to re-ve the patient's discomfort...

...Having seen the "light" our hers can enjoy the luxury of publicity agents and the promoter is promoted...

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...In the meantime as Secretary of Commerce since the days of Harding he had provided a government nursing bottle to great capitalist enterprises at home and abroad and won the love of the fat boys...

...Job after job of stock juggling, mine promotion, and wizard finance is unfolded by the author who cites documents and records, some of them being letters and reports of Hoover himself...

...Hoover: The Shoddy Material of a "Hero" Liggett's Book Throws Light on the Past By James Oneal JOHN QUINCY ADAMS onc« declared that many politicians and statesmen wore masks and William Allen White in a book on American politics a few years ago was mucht...

...Rising out of the drab Iowa seventies, as a youth he goes to Oregon where his go-getter instinct was awakened and was further stimulated as a student at Stanford University...

...Nor did he give up his interest and activities in his investments in this period as his "official biographers" contend...

...The portrait is not overdrawn as Liggett does not accept some of the accusations made by others...

...Moreover, the bread basket in Hoover's hands was used to support many of the post-war reactionary movements in Europe...

...Liggett gives the credit where it is due, to Dr...

...This job "stabilized'' a reactionary government supported by German bayonets...

...Indeed, the Hoover bread basket cooperated with the German General, "Butcher" Mannerbeim, in the overthrow of the Finnish Socialist Republic which was followed by horrible massacres of workers throughout Finland...

...Well, here is an American "hero...

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...The author declares that "he was collecting fat war-contract profits with one hand while he dispensed doles with the other...

...The Picture of a Hero The rest is history...

...However, Liggett declares that there Is no evidence that Hoover voted in England as some of his opponents charged...

...He makes the comparison and each reader can draw his or her own conclusion...

...Need we be surprised that Hoover would have*let Debs rot in prison or that he will say nothing in favor of the release of Mooney because, Liggett declares, although Hoover believes Mooney innocent he does not want to offend the Republican guards of California reaction...

...Moreover, his attitude towards the workers is that of the "efficiency" exploiter and his callous reference to cheap Chinese labor is certainly shocking...

...Harding's hokum was a return to "normalcy" which reverted back to the thievery of Grant's two administrations...

...Others have written of this phase of Hoover's activities and yet his sycophants have cultivated the fiction that he is entitled to the credit of Ruslan relief...

...Liggett emphasizes an interesting factor In this nasty affair...

...Then came Hoover, one of the queerest Dicks that ever placed feet under the White House dining table...

...There is hesitation with affectionate glances at the Democracy, then indecision, occasional statements of his "principles" which are meaningless, and then the Harding upheaval which reveals that the Republican road is the one to travel...

...Just as revolting was the Hoover attitude towards the Russian famine and support of the White Guard armies that Invaded Russia...

...The White Terror that followed this job was the most brutal in post-war history...

...In parallel columns he presents a comparison of each stage of these negotiations with each stage of Hoover's policy in relation to Russian relief...

...The action of '.he Dearborn police in killing four members of the unemployment demonstration at the Ford plant and wounding 30 others should be the concern of all workers everywhere, the Wayne county local of the Socialist Party of Michigan declares in a resolution...

...The "Great Humanitarian" of Hoover's "official biographers" becomes just the ordinary cynical and not too scrupulous promoter for which American capitalism is noted...

...Croker and Hopkins, whose lootings were the subject of common gossip in the California of Hoover's student days...

...Liggett makes no charges against Hoover on this score...

...Landing in Australia in 1897 at the age of 23, with an assured salary of $5,000 a year and all expenses as a field man for a London mining company, he was a nonresident of the United States foi twenty years...

...Here we may remark that Socialists In this and other countries also sent relief supplies direct to Russia and The New York Call was Instrumental in sending a ship loaded with food and clothing...

...The sordid details of this phase of the life of our hero make very interesting reading...

...he received good marks in mathematics and geology, was conditioned in chemistry, failed in German, and it was only with the assistance of an instructor that he was able to erase some crude spelling and correct some bad English which enabled him to get a diploma in geology...

...Liggett also disposes of some of the myths regarding Hoover as food dictator first in Belgium and then in Europe at the close of the war...

...He becomes interested in the presidency but does not know whether the best road to it is the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but he is willing to travel either...

...Hoover's origins run true to, the Polly anna pattern of American politics, the "poor boy who made good...

...Hoover was a mediocre student but was fitted for the career of a go-getting promoter, a profession he followed In Australia, China, Alaska and other parts of the world to the sorrow of others who played the game as Well as many Innocent investors In enterprises which he promoted...

...Our hero returns to the Unitad States to become Food Administrator and how ¦' e farmers on the one hand and their exploiters on the other fared during his benevolent administration the rags of the first and the huge post-war incomes of the second bear witness...

...Its props began to sag and then the crash...

...He relies on documentary material for his statements, he Is restrained where others'would be caustic, and the book Is therefore all the more convincing...

...One may well compare the dull platitudes of the President with the activities of the promoter and have little dtfflcutly in determining which reveals the real Hoover...

...impressed with the "queer Dicks" the voters heave into the White House, Walter W. Liggett has given us a study of both themes In a portrait of Herbert Hoover (The Rise of Herbert Hoover...

...The Return to America It was only after this Independent aid was given that Hoover finally made some concessions and even this was accompanied with much haggling while millions of men, women and children faced starvation...

...We know that it was withheld from Hungary during Bela Kun's regime and that Hoover's policy contributed to the establishment of the atrocious oligarchy of Admiral Horthy which survives to this day...

...In short, except for a good knowledge of geology...

...The promoter goes to the White House, a smug barker for the glories of the capitalist system...

...He did not organize the relief in Belgium but found it organized when he stepped in...

...CooHdge decides to retire to the Berkshires and Hoover inherits the machine...

...This will make It unnecessary for patients to go outside for blood or other tests...