Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitterly disappointed when President Coolidge refused to run for a third term, was more responsible than anyone else for keeping alive the "Draft Coolidge" movement. Having declared that "The Republican Party cannot accept an internationalist as its standard bearer," Senator Fess was defeated in 1928 as an anti-Hoover delegate to the Republican national convention, of which he had been designated keynoter. But at Kansas City he subsequently made his peace with Hoover. When the Muscle Shoals lobbying scandal compelled the G. O. P. to oust Claudius H. Huston as national chairman in 1930, Senator Fess took...
...Navy's traditional parade ground. There in 1907 another Roosevelt dispatched his "Great White Fleet" on its first world cruise. There in 1927 seasick Calvin Coolidge received the Fleet's salutes slumped in a chair on the deck of the Mayflower. There in 1930 Herbert Hoover gloomily watched a gloomy and debilitated flotilla go by. Exercise M. Behind the Fleet, as it steamed toward its New York review, lay long weeks of hard work and intensive maneuver. Ever since it hove out of San Diego April 9. hustling, pink-cheeked Admiral David Foote Sellers, its Commander-in-Chief...
Washington, Not without the secret approval of the Roosevelt Administration was the buck so neatly passed to the U. S. President Hoover had earnestly tried to halt the shipment of arms to the Chaco. Then in April 1933 the House had passed an Administration resolution authorizing the President to impose an arms embargo on any aggressor nation anywhere in the world. When the resolution reached the Senate broad-beamed Hiram Johnson had it amended to apply to both sides in a fight, on the theory that a one-sided embargo would be more likely to draw the U. S. into...
...cent more than he gets now. The hindrance apparently is not insurmountable. Congressmen recalled that President Wilson made Commander Gary Travers Grayson a rear-admiral, that President Harding made Dr. Charles E. Sawyer a brigadier-general, that President Coolidge made Major James Francis Coupal a colonel, that President Hoover made Lieut.-Commander Joel Thompson Boone a commander. If Presidents can have their personal physicians promoted over seniors in service, Representatives and Senators saw no reason why they could not do likewise with Dr. George Wehnes Calver...
...Palo Alto, Calif., one minute's walk from Citizen Herbert Hoover's home, students of Stanford University held a debate. The question: Should alumnus Herbert Hoover be returned to the White House? Debater Will Rogers Jr.: ''No . . . Roosevelt blazes the trail." The decision: No, seven...