Word: doings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within the secretive confines of the Navy Department in Washington, a small war went on last year. Shy but stubborn Acting Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison, who inherited the experimental instinct from his great father, Thomas Alva Edison, wanted the Navy to try out small, speedy, motor torpedo boats...
He issued an appeal, got newspapers to accept contributions for Finnish relief, telephoned an address to a mass meeting in Manhattan. He wrote: "America has a duty to do its part in the relief of the hideous suffering of the Finnish people. Our people should have an outlet in which...
Five months after he left the White House, he said: "What do I do all day? I get up fairly early and take a look from the Palo Alto place into the Santa Clara Valley. It's very pleasant. Then I have breakfast and a walk. Then I get...
Question. Last week, when Republican leaders assembled in Washington, correspondents were surprised to find that the biggest question was: What will Herbert Hoover do? General agreement was that at next year's convention he will control at least 200 of the 1,000 delegates. Of course the Republicans agreed...
Nevertheless, it was as plain as a New Deal deficit to a Republican wheelhorse that in his exile Herbert Hoover had made himself a symbol of the Republican Party. To the dismay of many an ardent Republican, to the positive frenzy of some, in spite of the efforts of a...