Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pensions of $15 a month for all widows and orphans of the World War-a brand new proposal which was not law even in the lush pension days of Coolidge and Hoover...
...Roosevelt: 1) visiting Orange, Va., lunched in a tearoom where the proprietor's dog jumped in her lap; when the embarrassed proprietor hastily called "Come here. Hoover!" Mrs. Roosevelt smiled, patted the terrier affectionately; 2) was speaker at a dinner of 500 women conferees on the Cause and Cure of War, told them: "I believe any one who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide, but most people don't think. . . . How deadly stupid we are. . . ."; 3) turned over her regular press conference to Mrs. Mary Harriman Rumsey who told the disappointed newshawks...
President Hoover would have answered such a question by stolidly staring at his vest buttons. President Coolidge would have adroitly turned the conversation to the White House dogs. But President Roosevelt, too smart a politician to let even his best friends dirty up his administration with their greedy tricks, was ready to meet the issue headon. With a righteous ring the President answered the question not in direct quotations but in such a way that every newshawk got his meaning: the practice of lawyers capitalizing on their political connections is not in keeping with the spirit of his administration, since...
...move seemed precisely that. They concluded that his 40% to 50% devaluation of the dollars in every U. S. citizen's pocket will so cheapen the U. S. national debt that in "real money" it will be less under President Roosevelt this year than it was under President Hoover...
...Gannett papers supported Herbert Hoover in 1932 and are still dry enough to refuse all liquor advertising, but since the first indications of a managed currency Publisher Gannett has been an ardent New Dealer. Secretary Morgenthau is one of his friends. So is Professor George Frederick ("Rubber Dollar") Warren of Cornell, whose views the Agriculturist has long reflected. Publisher Gannett saw a chance not only to oblige his friend and neighbor, but also to turn a pretty profit if the New Deal works out as he hopes...