National Affairs: Undefeated and Unafraid

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To accept his first nomination for the Presidency four years ago, Herbert Clark Hoover crossed the continent to his Palo Alto home, addressed 70,000 persons, mostly women, in the Stanford Stadium. It was a day bright with sunshine and political good fortune. Nominee Hoover expatiated statistically upon the country's prosperity, pointed to the vanishing poorhouse, promised, with God's help, to "banish poverty from this nation." His listeners went home with the feeling that only by his election could the country attain its full economic destiny. Mr. Hoover felt the same way....

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