Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a week, too, since the New Deal had begun to grope for an AAA substitute and Mr. Hoover thought the time was opportune to steal a march on the New Deal by getting in a bit of constructive criticism. Said he: "Instead of trying to find a balance to Agriculture by paying the farmer to curtail a crop, we should endeavor to expand another crop which can be marketed or which would improve the fertility of the soil. We import vast quantities of vegetable oils, sugar and other commodities. . . . We need to replenish our soils with legumes...
Little did Herbert Hoover imagine that within 24 hours Franklin Roosevelt would be enthusiastically repeating almost his very words...
...evening last week in the Coliseum at Lincoln, Neb., 10,000 applauding citizens looked up into the chubby face of the country's only living ex-President, who in turn beamed down upon them. Herbert Hoover was about to assault the New Deal on its once strongest political front. With his tongue in his apple cheek he called attention to the dreadful price-slumps which had not followed the demise of AAA: "President Roosevelt on May 30, 1935, prophesied that 'if we abandon crop control, wheat will immediately drop to 36? a bushel and cotton...
...audience persists in booing Roosevelt and applauding Hoover...
There was no such thing as a plant patent in the U. S. when Luther Burbank died in 1926. In 1930 President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone "who has invented or discovered and asexually reproduced any distinct variety of plant other than the tuber-propagated plant." One patent covers an improved mushroom, another a pecan nut. Flowers account for more patents than edible plants, roses for the most flower patents, hybrid-tea shrubs for the most roses. Luther Burbank's heirs have patented some of his plums and peaches. Patent...