Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...results of the work come through they will be published in the CRIMSON along with further tabulation from the national figures of the Roosevelt poll. The country so far has gone very much for Roosevelt and it will be interesting to watch how Harvard, which was strongly for Hoover, in the CRIMSON'S 1932 straw vote will feel two years later. When the vote is published a comparative set of figures on the earlier straw vote will be printed in order that the two sets may be contrasted...
...socialistic tendencies ruin his chance to make a hole in one. He saw it was his opportunity to show that monopoly and big business were reigning supreme. It was too much for the old criminal lawyer and the result was an outburst of vituperation which would make even Mr. Hoover wince. While there is some cause for his claims, the prejudice used in presenting them makes them practically useless...
...ground that he did not have 'practical' business experience. "On the other hand, fabricated and untruthful, charges of a miserable, petty, partisan character have been persistently circulated against him by a very small clique of disappointed office-seekers, at least one of them closely associated with the Hoover Administration. . . . He has discharged his duties with admirable ability, fidelity and success. . . . "Pending the determination of whether or not it will be possible to secure acceptance of the directorship of the bureau by a man of Dr. Thorp's calibre and his confirmation at the hands of the Senate...
...world problem the present Japanese trade menace is largely a matter of textile goods. Only in the U. S. where Japanese dumping has been receiving more and more attention since the last days of the Hoover Administration is the accent shifted to small manufactured goods-celluloid toys, rubber soled shoes crockery electric light bulbs. The U. S. is by far Japan's greatest market, but from the U. S. Japan imports one-fourth again as much as she sends...
...University of Minnesota. Other Commissioners include: Ada Louise Comstock, president of Radcliffe College; Isaiah Bowman, director of American Geographical Society, Carlton Joseph Huntley Hayes, Columbia historian. One of four who refused to sign the report was University of Chicago's famed Political Scientist Charles Edward Merriam. Like the Hoover Committee on Recent Social Trends, whose researches it found useful, the Commission began its survey in 1929. Financed by several hundred thousand Carnegie Corporation dollars and aided by scores of investigators, its announced purpose was to map the present and chart the future of social studies (history, political science, economics...