Study of the Hegemony of Parasitism - michaeljgoodnight.com

legations jobless. It was not by accident that he builded for his department
the hugest and perhaps the most lavishly furnished palace that housed a
branch of the government."
One of Hoover's most notable deeds, as Secretary of
Commerce, was his award of the Hazeltine radio patents
to his partner since 1909, Edgar Rickard, a gift
conservatively estimated to be worth at that time one
million dollars. When Hoover organized his campaign for
the presidency, he gave as his personal address Suite
2000, 42 Broadway N.Y. Suite 2000 was also listed as
the office of Edgar Rickard. It was also the address of
Hoover's erstwhile accomplice in the U.S. Food
Administration, Julius H. Barnes, chairman of the
Schroder Bank, which was to soon win notoriety as
Hitler's personal bank.
Although "Wild Bill" Donovan had served Hoover
faithfully for four years while he sought the nomination to
the Presidency, Hoover did not hesitate to cast him aside
when he became a political liability because of his
Catholic religion. The New York Times noted June 17,
1928:
"W.A. Bechtel of San Francisco sent a congratulatory telegram to the
nominee, 'In behalf of the construction industry we congratulate the
Republican Party on its selection of a candidate for chief Engineer of the
greatest business in the world for the next four years, one of our fellow
Californians who has shown yourself deserving of this great honor.'"
Hoover was soon preparing contracts for the largest
public work of that time, the Hoover Dam, of which
Bechtel was to become the chief contractor.