Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bermuda blows 80 m.p.h., rips shutters off walls, cedars out of the ground. Last week Bermuda was shaken by a hurricane of another kind as the result of a speech in the U. S. House of Representatives by Pennsylvania's loose-tongued Louis Thomas McFadden, impeacher of Herbert Hoover. Declared Representative McFadden...
...Some years ago Ramsay MacDonald, Premier of England, made a historic visit to the United States, during which he engaged in a famous secret conversation with the then President Herbert Hoover while both were sitting upon a log at the Rapidan Camp. . . . There have been many surmises and speculations as to what was said, but the veil of silence has remained unlifted until today. . . . I believe the time has come to make it public. I shall...
...told that Mr. MacDonald offered to transfer the Bermuda Islands to the United States in part payment of the British debt and that after some consideration Mr. Hoover declined the offer. . . . I am also informed that the title of the British Government to the Bermudas is about to be questioned in British courts and that the case of the Crown is not a strong...
...help organize the American Legion, serve two terms in New York's Assembly, three years (1921-24) as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. To help boys and Negroes he became a Boy Scout national executive committeeman, a trustee of Washington's Howard University. In 1929 President Hoover made him Governor of Puerto Rico. Conscientious, hardworking, sympathetic, he did his best to improve natives' health and prosperity, became as popular a governor as the island had ever had. He showed the same spirit, won the same reception as Governor-General of the Philippines in 1932-33. At leisure...
John Edgar Hoover, handsome young chief of the Department of Justice's Bureau of Investigation, declined a medal awarded him by the United States Flag Association as a prime force for law enforcement. Said Sleuth Hoover: "We feel fully repaid when our endeavors are successful and inure to the public good...