Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...popularity of the new deal was slow in striking Cambridge. The conservatism which has always marked student opinion here provided a Hoover landslide in 1932 when the country was ridding itself of the laissez-faire complex. Last winter, however, reactionaries dashed for cover as the high purposes of Mr. Roosevelt' and his program struck home. The CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll is testimony to the change...
...goes directly on to talk about charity and ethics, while we wait patiently but in vain for an exposition of the two sides. But by that time we have forgotten, too. However, it is an excellent example of his logic. Reading on: "Not even Franklin Roosevelt or Herbert Hoover or Upton Sinclair or Commander Hayes of the American Legion can hope to supply a cure for our troubles and still cling to the methods of a hundred and fifty years ago!" And I might add Jesse James. But this is utterly meaningless, a mere hodge-podge of names and inconsistencies...
...ever staged on Capitol Hill he attacked the provision with such guile and learning that even Mormon Reed Smoot was finally reduced to apoplectic silence. Result: an amendment giving suspected foreign books the benefit of court trial. In the same year he led the fight which passed, over President Hoover's veto, the Cutting-Hawes Bill for Philippine Independence. In the 1930-31 session he labored mightily to knit the disorganized Progressives into a bloc. Never sympathetic to the Hoover administration, he became its increasingly vehement critic as the Depression deepened. Early in the Depression he introduced a bill...
...Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam to send troops into San Francisco, he replied that it would ruin him politically. One by one the potent Young backers agreed to switch their strength in the primary to Merriam. Not until he had corralled most of the Young...
Author Russell, who has always held aloof from the political arena, takes a longer, more objective view of the argument than either Secretary Wallace or Mr. Hoover. A radical, he is also a scientist and a philosopher. To get a proper perspective of the debate between freedom and organization, he goes back 100 years, writes a history of political change from 1814 to 1914. No believer in "scientific" history, or in the Carlylean doctrine of heroes either, he has made his book a judicious blend of historical analysis and biography. His lucid irony does not prevent him from stating many...