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Robert Grant <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> U.S. Food Administration became<br />

director <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> U.S. Mint in Washington. Prentiss Gray<br />

became vice pres. British American Continental Corp.,<br />

Electric Shareholdings Corp., Hydroelectric Securities<br />

Corp., Manati Sugar Corp., St. Regis Paper, Swiss<br />

American Electric, Prudential Investors, International<br />

Holdings and Investment Corp. -- <strong>the</strong> last two being<br />

<strong>com</strong>panies controlled by Societe Generale and Francqui.<br />

These investment firms were organized by Belgian<br />

capitalist Capt. Alfred Loewenstein, who mysteriously<br />

vanished from his plane while flying over <strong>the</strong> English<br />

Channel.<br />

While his closest advisers pursued <strong>the</strong>ir multi-million<br />

dollar careers, Herbert Hoover remained dedicated to his<br />

ideals <strong>of</strong> public service. He became Secretary <strong>of</strong><br />

Commerce, and chose as his secretary Christian A.<br />

Herter, who had been his secretary at <strong>the</strong> Belgian Relief<br />

Commission, 1920-21, and had also been secretary <strong>of</strong><br />

<strong>the</strong> American Commission to Negotiate Peace. He was<br />

secretary to Hoover 1919-24 at Commerce; he married<br />

into <strong>the</strong> Pratt family <strong>of</strong> Standard Oil, who gave <strong>the</strong>ir<br />

Manhattan mansion as headquarters for <strong>the</strong> CFR, and<br />

he was later appointed Secretary <strong>of</strong> State.<br />

Charles Michelson wrote <strong>of</strong> Hoover's career at <strong>the</strong> Dept.<br />

<strong>of</strong> Commerce, in "The Ghost Talks", 1944:<br />

"Officially, Mr. Hoover was ever a promoter. When he took over <strong>the</strong> Dept. <strong>of</strong><br />

Commerce, it was a reasonably modern organization. He took <strong>the</strong> Bureau <strong>of</strong><br />

Mines from Interior. He dipped into <strong>the</strong> State Dept. when he realized his idea<br />

<strong>of</strong> <strong>com</strong>mercial agents abroad, and left <strong>the</strong> old <strong>com</strong>mercial attaches <strong>of</strong> our

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