Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kansas governor, who seems assured of getting the great block of uninstructed delegates at the convention, leads Senator William E. Borah by more than 100 votes, polling 279 to the Idahoan's 167. Herbert Hoover is the third choice of Harvard, with 98 votes...
Thus did Idaho's Borah become the first Republican Presidential candidate of 1936. Reason for the Borah announcement was that onetime Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown of Toledo, friend of Herbert Hoover, and other members of the Old Guard in Ohio were preparing to enter a "favorite son" in the Ohio primaries so that they could take Ohio's votes to the Republican convention in their pockets. Senator Borah, by his own candidacy, aimed to forestall them...
Petitioning a California court for permission to invest part of its endowment in common stocks, Stanford University introduced as a witness Trustee Herbert Hoover. At a San Jose hearing Trustee Hoover testified: "The trustees of Stanford University . . . are now confronted with a grave problem. . . . For 50 years much prudence and wisdom have caused the trustees to invest the endowment, now amounting to some $24,000,000, in seasoned bonds and first mortgages. . . . The devaluation of the dollar, the widespread bank credit inflation and the possible menace of currency inflation are the new factors with which the trustees must deal...
...learn how to ski, in the amazingly extensive methods by which Germany's Olympic Committee, functioning under Sports Leader Hans von Tschammer und Osten, has prepared for the 1936 Olympic Games, and in the extraordinary career of one of Germany's most celebrated cinemactresses. If President Hoover had made Jean Harlow a major functionary in the Olympic Games of 1932, it would have been explicable only as a tribute to the superhuman shrewdness of that young woman's press-agents. Herr Hitler last year awarded to an actress of comparable popularity exclusive permission to make cinema recordings...
When Franklin Roosevelt became President, his cheery, mobile face was a delightful relief to White House cameramen weary of recording the frozen gloom which had become Herbert Hoover's face during his last two years in office. In his turn President Roosevelt, determined to set a Presidential high in frank, free, friendly treatment of the Press, had Secretary Early give the photographers a White House room to loaf in, proved most patient and generous in allowing himself to be snapped in all manner of unstudied, and sometimes thoroughly unheroic, attitudes. Though presumably annoyed, he made no public remonstrance even...