Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...memories of the October day when President Roosevelt met with a cold reception at the gateway to his own college have faded far into the past with the tremendous approval which has been showered on him by the CRIMSON-Literary Digest poll. While Harvard was 73.74 per cent for Hoover in 1932, it is now 65.11 per cent for the Roosevelt policies. This change of feeling cannot come as a great surprise to many people; it would have been startling if the College had still maintained its support for the Republican Administration...
...lent a real color to the festivities. The fact that the accomplishments which merited a degree occurred several years before when he was Governor of New York prior to his retirement, made no difference. It really is too bad that Roosevelt has received a degree for Roosevelt and Hoover on the same platform would be an unequalled combination...
...palmy summer of 1929 Herbert Hoover's special session of Congress passed an act ordering a census of agriculture every ten years. By that law an agricultural census would be held on Jan. 1, 1935. The Roosevelt Administration recently decided to spend, in addition to $2,700,000 already voted, $7,540,000 to take a simultaneous census of the unemployed. Secretaries Roper, Wallace, Ickes and Madam Secretary Perkins all urged the change. So did Census Director Austin, General Johnson, Relief Administrator Hopkins. They had excellent reasons...
...William McKinley. also in office, accepted by telegram. William Howard Taft was a Federal judge when he was honored in 1893. President Theodore Roosevelt and Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton got their degrees at the same commencement, in 1901. Last to be kudized was U. S. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover...
...this hopeful commotion last week in no way assured early resurrections for the lean ghosts of 1929. As all lawyers know, it is a long and thankless task to corral even two-thirds of any big company's creditors including bondholders. One of President Hoover's last acts was to sign a bankruptcy bill which was supposed to make it easy for railroads to scale down top-heavy funded debt. A dozen or more carriers have since plunged into bankruptcy under this law but not one has yet been able to climb...