Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cartoonist Nelson Harding of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle made a sketch of the President-elect, right hand raised in greeting, hat held in left hand, and had it reproduced nine times, in nine panels of a strip cartoon entitled: "Anticipating the News Cameras-Pres.-Elect Hoover in Panama, in Colombia, in Chile, in Peru...
Last week, the day after President-Elect Hoover sailed good-willfully towards Latin-America, the State Department for some reason resurrected the Cumberland report from its eight-month obscurity, and published it. It was seen that Dr. Cumberland had recommended...
...Hoover Plan." Happiest and most eager of the Governors was Maine's Brewster. He carried and soon delivered an authorized message from the President-Elect himself, a message outlining a plan (see col. 3) to help carry out the Hoover dream of "abolishing poverty." It being impossible for the Governors' conference to enforce resolutions or fix programs, the Hoover plan was received with applause only, not acted upon...
President-Elect Hoover knows all about Collaborators Foster & Catchings. They are the kind of citizens with whom he likes to think and work. Their "road to plenty" has much the same idealistic ring as his own "abolishing poverty." Their job reserve plan served as an exegesis of his own campaign promise of a large continuous public works program. So he authorized Governor Brewster of Maine to explain the job reserve at the Governor's conference in New Orleans last week (see col. 1) and to announce it as an outline of the Hoover plan for protecting Coolidge prosperity...
...last week went the delegates of U. S. trade unionism to attend the 48th annual convention of the American Federation of Labor. Justly they felt important, for they represented more than 3,000,000 of the citizenry. The convention opened with overtones of optimism. Labor had heard about President-Elect Hoover's scheme to prevent unemployment, as outlined by Maine's Brewster at the New Orleans conference of Governors (see p. 13). Of this scheme William Green, President of the A. F. of L., had said: "It is the first definite movement to systematize wages & employment . . . the first...