Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Biennially Calvin Coolidge used to board a special train, whisk off to Northampton, Mass., drop his vote marked with a cautious x into the ballot box. His electoral duty done, that President would then whisk back to Washington. In 1928 Herbert Hoover went to Palo Alto to drop his vote and hear election returns which put him into the White House. His ballot in 1930 was cast by mail. In 1932 he crossed the continent for the first and only time during his Presidency, again to vote and hear election returns which put him out of the White House. Franklin...
...wrote Herbert Hoover in Palo Alto to New Jersey Republicans on the eve of last week's election. Next day the nation which two years ago overwhelmingly ousted the 31st President from the White House rejected Mr. Hoover's political advice with even greater emphasis and whittled the Republican opposition in the Senate down to a historic low. Democratic Boss James Aloysius Farley had asked for a two-thirds Democratic majority in the Senate to support President Roosevelt. With a roar of approval the country uprose to give him what he wanted-and more. So complete...
...Spontaneous combustion was advanced tonight as a possible cause of the Morro Castle tragedy in a report by Dickerson N. Hoover, Assistant Director of the Steamboat Inspection Service, to Secretary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper...
...path was onward and upward. President Taft made him Minister to Chile. President Wilson promoted him to Ambassador, shifted him to troublesome Mexico. President Harding made him Undersecretary of State, later Ambassador to Belgium. President Coolidge appointed him Ambassador to Italy. He got the job of taking President-elect Hoover on a personally conducted tour of South America. Ultimately President Hoover made him Chairman of the Tariff Commission, a job which he did not like and held for only a year...
...Illinois farm boy, Jackson Reynolds went west to Stanford for an education. There his 190 Ib. of compact brawn made him a fearsome halfback on the football team managed by a youth named Herbert ("Bert") Hoover. When the late great George Fisher Baker discovered him, Mr. Reynolds was teaching law at Columbia University. One of his pupils was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Today the old teacher sees his prodigious pupil occasionally, but he is not rated a close Roosevelt friend...