Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Accomplished Fact. Conversely, a thing which made it hard for any New Dealer to consider scrapping NRA was that it was an accomplished fact, huge and substantial. In Herbert Hoover's Department of Commerce Building it rambles through a vast suite of offices. In the seat where Hugh Johnson once sat alone, now sits the National Industrial Recovery Board with S. Clay Williams as its chairman. Beside him sit his four horsemen: Leon C. Marshall, political economist; Arthur D. Whiteside, executive of Dun & Bradstreet; Sidney Hillman, labor executive; Walton H. Hamilton, lawyer and economist-a potent team whose days...
...long-ago times the Republican party used to run this country of ours. That fact may seem incredible to the postlandslide generation, yet some items in yesterday's news reminded oldsters of the days of their youth, arousing in many a faint touch of nostalgia. Herbert Hoover and Andy Mellon, the one demanding restoration of the gold standard (O ruined relic of a bygone time!) and the other defending himself in an income-tax suit (Thus low have the great fallen!), have again been granted space in the newspapers. Smiling wistfully, yet for all their misfortune looking well-washed...
Early Sunday morning a buoyant, almost jovial, man stepped off the 20th Century Limited in New York's Grand Central Terminal, consented to be photographed, refused to be interviewed, hurried through the almost deserted lobby. A handful of commuters recognized Herbert Hoover, clapped, cheered. On his first visit East since he left the White House, Citizen Hoover came to attend his first meeting as a director of New York Life Insurance...
Abortions. A potent Sanger argument for unrestricted use of contraceptives is that women who do not want babies resort to secret abortions. She estimates that 4,000,000 U. S. women have themselves | aborted each year. Dr. Frederick Joseph Taussig of St. Louis, President Hoover's special investigator of the subject, puts the number at 700,000.* Probably 15,000 U. S. women die each year on account of faulty abortions...
...brilliant pre-War era belonged Ernestine Schumann-Heink, hardy at 73, broadcasting in Chicago last week for Hoover Vacuum Cleaners and sending flowers to the bewildered Mother Dionne from "Mother Schumann-Heink." Geraldine Farrar, long the high-spirited pet of the Met, has also turned to radio. Sedately she describes the doings on the stage where once she ruled. Mary Garden was resting in Manhattan last week after her Debussy lecture-recitals and a visit to Sing Sing...