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Among them was forty - three - year - old Herbert Hoover , who had just been selected as the United States Food Administrator . Hoover urged Dawes to abandon his military career at once and head a new organization to control grain ...
Among them was forty - three - year - old Herbert Hoover , who had just been selected as the United States Food Administrator . Hoover urged Dawes to abandon his military career at once and head a new organization to control grain ...
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Thus , while Lowden's campaign continued listless , and Calvin Coolidge loomed in the background as an unknown quantity , Hoover scouts redoubled their activity , touring the country in the quest of delegates for their candidate .
Thus , while Lowden's campaign continued listless , and Calvin Coolidge loomed in the background as an unknown quantity , Hoover scouts redoubled their activity , touring the country in the quest of delegates for their candidate .
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En route to Springfield , Illinois , where Hoover was to speak , the President and the Ambassador discussed the situation . The Bank of Austria was about to fail . If that happened , the Reichsbank in Germany would be compelled to ...
En route to Springfield , Illinois , where Hoover was to speak , the President and the Ambassador discussed the situation . The Bank of Austria was about to fail . If that happened , the Reichsbank in Germany would be compelled to ...
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| Title | Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes Portrait of an American: Charles G. Dawes, Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Author | Bascom Nolly Timmons |
| Publisher | Holt, 1953 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 5 Dec 2006 |
| Length | 344 pages |
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