Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for: Power Trust investigation (1928), Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1929, 1930, 1933), Hoover Moratorium (1931), Bonus (1932, 1933, 1934), Relief (1932), 2.75% Beer (1932), Copper Tariff (1932), 3.2% Beer (1933), Repeal (1933), Roosevelt Gold Bills (1933, 1934), St. Lawrence Waterway (1934), Cotton Control (1934). Stock Exchange Control (1934), 16-to-1 Silver Amendment (1934)., Overriding Philippine Independence Veto...
...second time President Roosevelt gave a job to one of Herbert Hoover's aides. Riding to the Capitol for the inauguration on March 4, 1933, President Hoover asked his successor to find a job for White House Secretary Walter Newton. President Roosevelt named Newton to the Home Loan Bank Board for one year (TIME, June 19, 1933). Last week President Roosevelt named George Akerson, President Hoover's first secretary, to a $6,000 job as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. Du Pont owns 23% of GM's common stock and any outward sign of management ructions is always attributed to a clash between the du Ponts and the Fishers-usually with a sly reference to the fact that the Fishers backed Hoover in 1928 and the du Ponts backed Smith. That a polite tussle for the GM reins has been going on for months is no secret. But just what connection that had with the withdrawal by Fishers last week, no one who knew would...
...this time the Bar convention had become an outspoken free-for-all. The things that were said did not help the profession's standing with the general public but it did give A. B. A. members a righteous sense of housecleaning. John Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Department of Justice's bureau of investigation, leaped into the melee, shouting darkly: "I do not say that pardons have been purchased, although there have been rumors current to this effect...
...Herbert Hoover in the Saturday Evening Post: "The origin, character and affinities of the regimentation theory of economics and government . . . can best be determined by an examination of the actions taken and the measures adopted in the United States during recent months...