Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover, having had difficulty in finding a successor to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, named Judge Cardozo to the Supreme Court at the suggestion of Senators Borah and Wagner...
...modest man with a quiet charm. When he started to reduce the Public Debt, with a consequent reduction in taxation, enthusiastic G.O. Partisans tagged him with the silly title of "greatest Secretary of the Treasury since Alexander Hamilton." To cap his long service with a special honor President Hoover appointed Mr. Mellon Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in 1932. After a gently graceful year in London, Mr. Mellon stepped quietly back to private life on March 17, 1933. He did not hope for respect from the new Administration but he did expect peace...
...peace seemed the last thing the New Dealers wanted to grant him. Mr. Hoover vanished from the scene to Palo Alto. Mr. Stimson went inconspicuously back to his Manhattan law practice. Mr. Wilbur once more became active president of Leland Stanford. All the Hoover Cabinet was politically forgotten-except Mr. Mellon. For years the Democrats had yipped about his administration of the Treasury...
...whole co-operative drive. It resolved that "utterances by the President encourage the belief...that he is receptive of suggestions for promotion of the common welfare." It pledged "fullest co-operation." It appointed a Recovery committee headed by none other than Silas Hardy Strawn, Chamber president under Herbert Hoover and die-hard New Deal critic. Within two days, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, still pinching itself incredulously, found itself the leader of the whole current business drive to put men and money back to work before Congress meets...
...debts to those folks who carried us so long. We mended the fences, painted the barn, chinked up the cracks in the roof....Then we got around to the house and painted that." Another farmer walked into a bookshop with a wad of bills, demanded five copies of Herbert Hoover's The Challenge to Liberty...