Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...field went under. In Washington 1,500 WPA workers threw up a 19-ft. dike of earth, stone and sandbags to protect the Washington Monument and new Government buildings near the river. Residents of outlying Georgetown took to rowboats and canoes as the waters seeped up, flowed over Washington-Hoover and Bolling flying fields, swept away a few waterfront cottages, lapped the trunks of the famed Japanese cherry trees along the Potomac tidal basin...
Senator Borah became a candidate because he could not detect a reflection of his liberal dawn on the faces of such men as Herbert Hoover, Kansas' Governor Alfred Mossman Landon or Publisher William Franklin Knox of the Chicago Daily News as they turned toward the Republican convention in Cleveland on June...
...Youngstown area, Borah managers will consider themselves lucky to win half of Ohio's 52 convention delegates. Not more than ten are conceded to him by the opposition. Last week before the Senator arrived in town the Youngstown Vindicator took a straw vote. Result: Landon, 542; Borah, 322; Hoover, 175; [Roosevelt...
...Herbert Hoover's name also carries weight...
...business under New York State's strict insurance laws. Engineered by his able, honest managers, the election of the world's best black boxer to the Victory board was not primarily dictated by a desire for the benefit of his business judgment, any more than was Herbert Hoover's election to the board of New York Life. Among certain groups of U. S. insurance prospects both names carry considerable weight...