Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guarantee in his pocket. Not from Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (of which he is a director) did he get his loan. He went, instead, to see President Thomas A. Buckner of New York Life. New York Life's Board, on which sit such G. O. Partisans as Herbert Hoover, Nicholas Murray Butler and Charles D. Hilles, considered Joe Day's mortgage with a U. S. guarantee, decided it was a good way to set 5,500,000 idle dollars earning their keep...
Meantime one of Hupp's founders and a former chairman, J. (for John) Walter Drake, marched into court as a large stockholder, demanding that Chairman Andrews be unceremoniously ousted by judicial order. Mr. Drake, who served as Assistant Secretary of Commerce when Herbert Hoover headed that Department, also obtained a temporary injunction restraining the Hupp directors from carrying out the same contracts & options that bothered the Stock Exchange. His charges were that the contracts & options were drawn largely for Archie Moulton Andrews' personal benefit...
...Solicitorship General. But public advancement meant more than money to Mr. Reed, who is the husband of the Registrar General of the Daughters of the American Revolution, and in his own right a country squire and cattle breeder at home in Maysville, Ky. First called to Washington by President Hoover as counsel to the late Farm Board at $25.000 salary, he previously advanced under Democratic rule to the RFC at $12.500. Not so brilliant as some of the New Deal's younger legalites, his tall bulk appealed to tall, bulky Jesse Jones, and his hard work resulted...
...workmen groomed the Theater for an overflow crowd. At the foot of the slope, swishing academic gowns trailed an odor of mothballs through Faculty Glade. Class banners clustered about the base of the 300-ft. white granite Campanile. Well in time for the 10 o'clock procession, Herbert Hoover, who had driven up alone from Palo Alto, arrived with his gown over his arm. To friends he confided: "I hate academic gowns." At 10 o'clock punctual officials glanced nervously at their watches, glanced again & again before Secretary Perkins, who had overslept at the President's House...
...with Governor Frank Finley Merriam, ex-officio chairman of the Board of Regents. Be hind, with her speech in a Department of Labor "penalty" envelope, trudged Secretary Perkins, escorted by California's best-loved professor, Vice President and Provost Monroe Emanuel Deutsch. Behind them, Citizen Hoover and General David Prescott Barrows, the university's onetime president who led the National Guard to break up the General Strike when Miss Perkins dallied. Mr. Hoover slipped into his gown just before the procession puffed through a fringe of eucalyptus trees. Alumni fixed cushions on the Theater's stone tiers...