Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...loan up to 50% of the property value of any business to its owners. California's Hoeppel wanted a $10,000,000,000 appropriation for "county loan agencies." More realistically, Minority Leader Bertrand Snell demanded restoration of the 15% pay cut in Federal salaries. And an echo of Hoover times sounded when Minnesota's Lundeen filed a petition to force a vote on a bill to pay the Bonus in full...
...Gothic cathedral builders, Mme Blanche believes in symbolism in her designs. The base of the Inaugural Cake was of lady's cake, a Georgia recipe in honor of President Roosevelt's interest in Warm Springs. Around its rim were miniatures of every President from Washington to Hoover garlanded in gold laurel leaves. The secret of a Mme Blanche cake lies in its seven-step method of icing, of which the five central processes are a sturdy secret...
...Dyer actually goes so far as to question the wiseness of professors in general. He even lays these particular pedagogues open to the now questionable charge of having believed in President Hoover. The only word of praise that Mr. Dyer has for the book is that it "sounds like New England." One is load to believe that Dyer favors the N.R.A. The index expurgatorius follows...
...just read of the book you seven wise men have concocted; and what I hear of it is enough without reading the book. It sounds like New England, and it sounds like a lot of professors, proving how very dumb they can be. In your opinion, I presume, Mr. Hoover was right in letting Prosperity remain just around the corner, and that nothing should have been done about it. If all seven of you had brain fever (which none of you will ever have,) I suppose the proper thing to do would be to let you get over it through...
Depression psychology, and the reaction to Mr. Hoover which it engendered, were sufficient to elect Mr. Roosevelt. With the strength of his personal charm, and the vast panorama of bustle which he conjured up, Mr. Roosevelt has been able to withhold the answer. We do not know whether he plans a reformed capitalism, a government purgation, as it were, of the excesses of capitalistic society, or a gradual accession to government ownership. The first would imply that the evils of capitalism are confined to its excesses; the second would imply that the evils of capitalism are in its essence...