Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Speech, as everyone knows, is written by the Premier. What followed was a burst of demagogery from the Throne- i. e. from hard-pressed Canadian Premier Richard Bedford Bennett who is trying to escape the fate of Herbert Hoover by a lightning change from his accustomed conservatism to Roosevelt newdealism (TIME...
...wealthiest capitalists, denounced prosperous ex-Premier King as "entrenched behind the forces of Capitalism!" Amazed Liberals accused the Conservative Premier "not only of stealing our clothes but of trying to wish his old clothes off on us." Conservative henchmen were jubilant. Resigned until recently to a debacle like Herbert Hoover's, they vowed last week that "Bennett has a chance to put this over, a real chance...
...illogical. For most businessmen the Administration's dollar tinkering brought little except uncertainty. Domestic prices failed to rise in proportion to the cut in the dollar's value, and debts, particularly corporate, remained almost as hard to pay in 59? Roosevelt dollars as they were in 100? Hoover dollars. If the Supreme Court upheld the gold clause, it might mean that perhaps $100,000,000,000 of bonds and contracts dated prior to June 1933 would have to be paid at the rate of $1.69 for every $1 borrowed. To most debtors such an added burden would prove...
...bank that received or paid out cash when, at 43, he was elected president of the Bank for International Settlements. B. I. S., known as the "Bank without a Vault,"* had been handling Reparations payments under the Young Plan. When the Young Plan payments were stopped by President Hoover's moratorium, Banker Fraser helped develop a profitable sideline in League of Nations loans and transfers among European banks. Last week President Fraser, deaf to all pleas from his B. I. S. associates, announced that he would not be a candidate for reelection when his term expires next May. Observers...
...Psychology 9 Emerson 211 Sociology 7a Emerson A Spanish 7 Sever 24 2 P.M. Economics A Dr. Abbott, Sec. H Memorial Hall Mr. Baker, Sec. L, U Memorial Hall Mr. Daly, Sec. V Memorial Hall Dr. Davis, Sec. J Memorial Hall Prof. Frickey, Sec. S Memorial Hall Dr. Hoover, Sec. A Memorial Hall Dr. Hunt, Sec. M Memorial Hall Mr. Lamb, Sec. P, Q Memorial Hall Dr. Oakes, Sec. D Memorial Hall Dr. Ross, Sec. N, T Memorial Hall Dr. Shaffner, Sec. E, G New Lect. Hall Dr. Smith, Sec. F, W New Lect. Hall Dr. Wallace...