Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...capital with the capital of Browning-firearms heirs to start the First Security system which operated 28 banks (now consolidated into twelve) in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming. He became vice president and treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles came to the Treasury as special assistant to Secretary Morgenthau-to advise him how to finance the greatest peacetime deficit. But Earle Bailie, forced to resign that ticklish job because of Senatorial objections to his Wall Street connections (TIME, Jan. 15), stayed on long...
...generation it has been the gilded dream of Midwest farmers and manufacturers that some day bigger, better boats would carry their goods down the Lakes, down the St. Lawrence, and across the sea. Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt both pledged themselves to the development of a Lakes-to-Atlantic Waterway. Last week President Roosevelt moved to redeem his pledge by urging the Senate to ratify the ''so-called St. Lawrence Treaty" with Canada which President Hoover after long delay had wangled through to the signing stage...
...Hoover-appointed Democrats whom President Roosevelt allowed to con tinue on the board are all big businessmen. West by Southwest. Wilson McCarthy is one, a smart Salt Lake City lawyer whose pony-express riding father left him a cattle fortune. Another is that husky lover of detective stories, rich Public Utilitarian Harvey Crowley Couch of Pine Bluff, Ark. And from the most spacious State of all is the man who dominates RFC's policies, has dominated them since the agency's re birth-Chairman Jesse Holman Jones, a Texan now become a titan. When Jesse Jones...
...Loesch chose for the subject of his speech which he delivered in Langdell Hall last night "The Duty a Lawyer Owes to the Public." In 1929 Mr. Loesch was one of the eleven members of the National Committee on Law Observation and Enforcement, being appointed by President Hoover. Previously, Mr. Loesch had been the state's attorney of Cook County...
...Cook County, he helped put many gangsters behind the bars. During his career as a lawyer in Chicago, Mr. Loesch was special state's attorney for Cook County to investigate frauds, and chief special assistant attorney general of Illinois, to investigate bombings and kidnappings in elections. In 1929, President Hoover appointed Mr. Loesch one of the eleven members of the National Committee on Law Observation and Enforcement...