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...functions into a world-wide organization primarily interested in helping the U. S. businessman sell his goods abroad. If Johannesburg wanted washing machines or Brisbane underwear or Budapest typewriters or Edmonton corkscrews, what came to be known as "Hoover's Foreign Legion" would hear of it first and flash the news to the Department which then broadcast trade orders to U. S. industry. Herbert Hoover thought foreign trade was able to make or break domestic prosperity and to this end the Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce was his favorite lever in trying to pry a sodden nation...
...various times he was connected with some 20 or 30 different companies which failed, successively for about $90,000,000, but publishing was his real forte. At the age of 25 he founded the Financial Times, then bought The Sun. His greatest success was a weekly which with a flash of inspiration he called John Bull. Pudgy, pompous, curly-haired, Horatio Bottomley looked like John Bull. To millions of Britons he was John Bull. His editorial policies paralleled those of long-faced William Randolph Hearst: sensationalism, flaring headlines, ultranationalism. Again like Hearst, he kept a convenient goat to blame...
...Rosenthal case, his "favorite"' murder of all time; saw the S. S. Carpathia steam into New York harbor with Titanic survivors; covered the three-cornered presidential campaign. He has covered every major political campaign since then (except 1924). His return to reporting last week was with a dazzling flash: he got photographed with his first big interviewee, John P. Morgan...
...splashed a gay moment of color on the drab canvas of Depression. Last week passers-by on Broadway might have thought that the season was opening at the dingy, yellow brick opera house. Cordons of police held back curious spectators. Shiny limousines rolled up, discharging richly dressed socialites. Flash-lamps flared continuously. Inside, the old theatre had changed its aspect completely. A floor had been built over the worn, red plush orchestra chairs. An improvised circle of boxes had been built under the Dia- mond Horseshoe. The scenery for La Rondine had been set up on the stage...
...more men ever were found, alive. The Phœbus's first awful flash of the accident was picked up by a German-speaking operator of Mackay Radio & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan at 1:46 a.m. It simply reported the crash, and the rescue of four men. Immediately the Coast Guard sent cutters dashing to the position, 20 miles off Barnegat Lightship. The cruiser U. S. S. Portland steamed for the scene. Weatherbound, airplane pilots chafed and champed until dawn. Within a few hours a fleet of rescue ships were circling by sea and air around...