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It Seems to Heywood Broun
Broun, Heywood | May 8, 1929 issue

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U.S. President Herbert Hoover has not been in the box sufficiently long to make an estimate of his capacity either fair or easy, but it is already obvious that the man does not suffer from modesty. At a luncheon of the Associated Press was a bad place for the President of the United States to get up and display a gross ignorance of journalism, criminology and law. There has been a reaction against excessive legalism in the U.S. government. President Hoover was supposed to bring great skill in engineering and in business administration. And perhaps he has. It is not essential that the President of the U.S. should be expert in the intricacies of law but at least he should have some conception of what it is all about.

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LAW -- United States; JOURNALISM -- United States; CRIMINOLOGY; HOOVER, Herbert, 1874-1964; CRIMINAL law; UNITED States
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