Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt has lately complained to friends that all big businessmen who visit him have only one threadbare suggestion to offer: ''Restore confidence!" That hoary cry rang frequently through the Chamber last week but never more loudly than from the Chamber's president under Herbert Clark Hoover. Silas Hardy Strawn, a stout Republican pillar, spoke on security regulation, a subject which ranked a close second to NRA as the Chamber's chief interest. The hard-bitten Chicago lawyer refused to admit that he was a Roosevelt wolf-crier but his speech was shot with such phrases...
Thus did Variety, periodical of the show business, last week headline a new collection of basic statistics: In eleven months Franklin D. Roosevelt saw 83 feature cinemas, 73 "short subjects" and 500 reels of news. The total (1,327) was four times as many as seen by Herbert Hoover, five times as many as by Calvin Coolidge. 18% more than the estimated average mean consumption of "rabid type" cinemaddicts in a similar period. Two pictures President Roosevelt had exhibited twice at the White House: The Fighting President, a compilation of newsreel shots of himself, and Gabriel Over The White House...
...rubber market. They managed to stretch rubber prices to $1.23 per lb., but when the restriction scheme collapsed the price did not stop shrinking until it hit 3? per lb. early last year. Chief reason for the plan's failure was not Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's inveighing against it but lack of cooperation by Dutch planters in the East Indies. The harder the British bore down on production, the faster the Dutch planted...
...pertinent facts are that Mr. Everett Sanders, chairman of the National Committee, has resigned. His resignation carries a special implication. Mr. Sanders was the chairman who conducted the campaign to reelect Mr. Hoover in 1932. Previous to that he had been private secretary to President Coolidge. Mr. Sanders, retirement, therefore, is notice that there is no disposition on the part of elements hither to dominant in the party to keep control of the organization. Mr. Sanders' resignation amounts to an announcement of hands off and an open field...
...Republican pupil of the late Robert Marion La Follette, John Elaine supported the Presidential campaigns of Woodrow Wilson (1912), Senator La Follette (1924). Alfred Emanuel Smith (1928), Franklin Delano Roosevelt. President Roosevelt appointed him to the board of Reconstruction Finance Corp., formation of which he had opposed under President Hoover...