Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...break Germany's 435-mile trench stronghold from the Channel to the Swiss border. For four years of Depression the U. S. Government has tried in vain to break the deadlock in the building business, to move the nation's heavy industries once more into open country. Commander Hoover used exhortation. Generalissimo Roosevelt tried a more tangible method of as sault. In May he drew his plans. In June Congress approved them. In July organization began. Last week was launched the great housing drive whose unwritten slogan is "Recovery or Bust...
...Earl Browder, Secretary of the Communist Party. Opening the last they read: "Push aside the capitalists, open the warehouses, distribute the goods to all who need them. . . . Under Roosevelt and the NRA, the millions of workers are getting less food, less clothing, less shelter, than they did under Hoover...
Asked why he had come down from Herbert Hoover's 33 1/2%, Secretary Swanson snapped, "Well, we will see if they accept 20% before we go any further...
...almost reverential awe when he won a Pulitzer Prize for a series of articles for the Post-Dispatch's "Dignity Page" called "The Plight of the Country." This series composed one of the most thoughtful and fair-minded journalistic inquiries into the Depression and such remedies as the Hoover Administration was applying. Last year Ross acted as president of the Gridiron Club. For years he had helped to stage-manage its shows, with the aid of a stop watch to see that no skit, no song lagged beyond its allotted time. Today he has one son at Dartmouth, another...
...California Academy of Sciences made Herbert Hoover its first vice president. Citizen Hoover has just finished the manuscript of a book, to be called The Challenge to Liberty. Two installments of it will appear in the Saturday Evening Post during September...