Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President's recent fireside talk which has been so hardly dealt with in the conservative Boston press, was motivated, after a long period of silence, by the greatest concert of protest since the latter months of the Hoover administration. There can be no doubt that it was this outcry that called forth the speech, and similarly there can be no doubt that Mr. Roosevelt is well informed of the extent of the outcry, but whether the Boston Tories secure in a brass-bound provincialism, are well aware of the currents of thought elsewhere in the country can fairly be doubted...
...speech. He referred to Franklin's statement that wealth was acquired by honest, hard work. But he failed to add that one of Franklin's famous maxims was: "A penny saved is a penny earned". If he had done this, however, he would have contradicted the policy which Herbert Hoover's administration initiated and what Franklin Roosevelt's administration is continuing; namely, that of encouraging the American citizen to get rich by spending. Fortunately, however, our President probably realized that Franklin's coffin was too small to permit of rolling over within its confines. V. H. Kramer...
...device, is a bad man to have for a political foe. In 1928 he delivered Mississippi to Al Smith 5-to-1, "me a Baptist, a dry and a Ku Klux Klansman," largely by this stratagem: In a Memphis burlesque theatre he announced that during the 1927 flood Herbert Hoover got off a train at Mound Bayou, Miss. and danced on the station platform with a Negro woman. George Akerson, Hoover's aide-de-camp, had a hard time refuting this canard without offending either white or black voters. "It was just like asking old High-Collar Herbert...
During the twelve years of Republican rule no railroad executive was more popular in Washington than Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of Baltimore & Ohio. Over his line Presidents Harding, Coolidge and Hoover rode on most of their trips and often in "Uncle Dan's" own private car. The White House door was constantly swinging open to him for Presidential conferences on railroad problems. His name, as spokesman for his industry, could be found on practically every list of tycoons picked by the President to do this or that public job. The country had every reason to believe that grey-haired...
...most famous member of the first full four year course graduating class (1895) at Leland Stanford University (Leland Stanford, Cel) is ex-president Herbert Hoover. He still lives on the campus...