![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Billy hired a boy to help him at 25 cents a week, but his hired hand proved lazy. He tinkered with it until it worked and decided to start a printing business. One day while rummaging through items his father, an antique dealer, had accumulated, Billy found a printing press his dad had bought for 50 cents. ![]() Like some of the most famous objects of art and scholarship, Our President Herbert Hoover occurred almost by accident. Rather, he was inspired by Hoover's example and his fortitude and had pride in his country and in the religious values he absorbed. Nor did he march to the downbeat tempo of the time. Marsh did not share the nation's antipathy toward its chief executive. The most intensive coverage appeared in the New York Herald Tribune, but there were stories in the New York Times, the Washington Herald, and the Washington Post. For a few weeks the book created a sensation in major dailies. Marsh, Jr., of New Milford, Connecticut, assisted by his nine-year-old brother Charles ("Bub"). In the dismal days of the Great Depression, one 11-year-old boy, quite precocious, yet expressing the innocence and insight of youth, did not lose his ideals or his admiration for the much-reviled President, Herbert Hoover.īuried in the archives of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and in faded clippings found in the library's newspaper clipping files is a brief biography of the beleaguered President by William J. Billy Marsh published a second book in 1932 titled Why You Should Vote for President Hoover, as noted in a New York Evening Post article of October 2, 1932. ![]()
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