Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain Warms told Assistant Director Dickerson N. Hoover that the Morro Castle's automatic fire alarm system had failed to work. " This statement was not made. During the testimony of Captain Warms on Monday, Sept 10, Mr. Crone asked Captain Warms if the automatic alarm registered. Captain Warms answered that it registered when flames existed on A deck. Mr. Crone asked whether fire was in the staterooms at that time and Captain Warms replied: "Yes, in staterooms on A deck, port side...
...Bernard Baruch, as head of the War Industries Board, was absolute dictator of U. S. business, an even greater autocrat than Hugh Johnson became under NRA. As generous with his advice and counsel to Republicans as to Democrats, Mr. Baruch was from time to time useful to the Hoover Administration. When Franklin Roosevelt went to Washington, "Bernie" Baruch was slated to be a trusted White House economic observer. "I am a speculator." he said once, "and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe." In June 1933, the hawk-eyed financier...
When in 1931 President Hoover said, "No one is going hungry," he was expressing nothing more than a pious hope. It was definitely not a promise because he was unwilling to back his words with Federal funds. In the Hoover philosophy such a move was "un-American," therefore unthinkable. It was also unnecessary. Hungry U. S. citizens had always been fed by the private charity of their fellows. In Herbert Hoover's own experience as relief administrator that charity had overflowed to care for hungry Belgians, hungry Russians, hungry Americans caught in the Mississippi flood. Remembering the past...
Other eyes saw the burden of misery growing, saw private charity breaking down in city after city, county after county, state after state. On every side voices, angry or august, cried that the situation was unparalleled, demanding unparalleled action. But Herbert Hoover clung to the philosophy of the good neighbor, continued to translate it into official do-nothingness. It was for this, in no small measure, that millions of citizens rose up in November 1932 to sweep him from office...
...face of these stark facts that some 200 civic leaders and social workers gathered in Washington last week to launch the Fourth Mobilization for Human Needs, super-campaign of propaganda for all private charities. At its head, as he had been under President Hoover, was able, eloquent Newton Diehl Baker of Cleveland, Wartime Secretary of War. The mobilizers gathered first on the White House lawn for a greeting from the President. His job was difficult: to steer the sentiment of the country back to the Hoover philosophy of voluntary giving while continuing the Roosevelt practice of direct relief based...