Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First Trouble. Early in 1933, while Herbert Hoover was still in office but while New Deal measures were beginning to be discussed, George Sloan issued a statement opposing such a cotton processing tax as AAA later imposed. He declared : "The extensive price increases necessitated by the tax will decrease the consumption of cotton and cause widespread displacement of workers in the cotton textile industry." By autumn the price of cotton had jumped from 6¢ to 92 ½ç per Ib. and on top of that was a 4.2¢ processing tax. Labor was costing the industry 69% more per hour...
President Hoover never knew for sure how many persons were unemployed in the U. S. during his Administration. President Roosevelt knows no more than his predecessor about the state of U. S. joblessness. Their ignorance is due to the fact that the Federal Government keeps records of those who get jobs, none of those who do not. Largely because there are no incontrovertible figures on unemployment, its size and extent remain a red-hot subject for argument and guesswork...
...political objections by the P. M. G." (TIME, July 30). Mr. Farley had found that the 61- year-old engineer, who had mined in Siam, Siberia, South Africa, Turkey, India and China, had once described himself as a Republican, had even tried to become Director of Mines under Herbert Hoover. Boss Farley was determined to let no Republican into the Bureau of Mines or anywhere else if he could help...
...speech. He had obtained records of radio speeches by the Louisiana Senator, the President, the editor of Today, many another New Dealer, to add to a linguistic library which now includes 2,500 disks recording the speech of Maine farmers, Southern mountaineers, Barnard girls, Thomas A. Edison, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith and Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...
Married? Mildred Hall, 29, secretary to Mrs. Herbert Hoover; and Thomas Allen Campbell. 33, Los Angeles school teacher, son of onetime Governor of Arizona Thomas Edward Campbell; in Palo Alto...