Word: hoover
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...three years Admiral William Veazie Pratt was Chief of Naval Operations and thus No. 1 professional in the service, he had to swallow many a bitter pill. The London Treaty (1930) put the Navy's future into a diplomatic straitjacket. In the name of peace and disarmament, President Hoover whittled away at its appropriation year after year, almost brought its building program to a standstill. It was Admiral Pratt's grim duty to stand by and watch the U. S. fleet (except for capital ships) dwindle from supposed parity with Great Britain to actual inferiority to Japan. Last...
...delivered a telling blow to Herbert Hoover, whose followers in California have lately been working like beavers to root Senator Johnson out of public life...
...teach, made himself an expert in agronomy. Rated an able administrator, he had been Kansas State Agricultural College's president for seven years when in 1925 President Coolidge called him to Washington to head the Department of Agriculture. There he wrestled long and successfully against McNary-Haugenism. President Hoover sent him to Egypt largely because the Jardine family did not want to go back to Kansas...
Presidents held a new interest for Cohan after that. For the George Washington Bicentennial he wrote "Father of the Land We Love," went to the White House and presented Herbert Hoover with the first copy (TIME, Aug. 10, 1931). Three years ago he wrote for the Edison Golden Jubilee a song that was never published. Called "Thomas A. Edison, Miracle Man," it starts...
...clearly not to close, and his experts reminded him that the mortgage companies had ridden out every previous depression on the anchor of the 18-month clause. Close he did not, and final judgment on his wisdom awaits the time when historians finish with the ways of Herbert Hoover in Depression...