Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...taken seven months before his election, at a Manhattan luncheon for the Boy Scout Foundation. At Mr. Roosevelt's left is Barron Collier, car card advertising tycoon and real estate speculator who last month got a three-month moratorium on his $17,000,000 debts, under the Hoover bankruptcy law.-ED. As an olrltime consistent reader of TIME I appeal to you for some information to satisfy my curiosity. Hearst's "Washington Chatter'' first First Lady in U. S. history to do so First female resident in the White House to smoke: "Princess" Alice Roosevelt...
...King Albert's little Belgium again sent the tartest note to the U. S. State Department, snapped that she signed her debt agreement only after verbal assurances in Washington that her payments to the U. S. would be "amply covered by German reparations payments" shut off by the Hoover Moratorium...
...plucked him out of Helena, made him director of grain marketing at Chicago. There he fell in with George Peek's theories of agricultural legislation and together they fought for the McNary-Haugen bill. When Mr. Peek, disgusted with the G. O. P.'s nomination of Herbert Hoover in 1928, turned Democrat, Chester Davis beamed. He was already vice chairman of the Smith Independent Organizations Committee, chief thumper for the Brown Derby among dirt farmers. After the Hoover landslide they cooled their enthusiasm by starting a company to make things out of cornstalks. Unlike George Peek, Administrator Davis...
...Yawkey, foster son of the late Detroit Lumberman William Hoover Yawkey, celebrated his 30th birthday last February by buying the Boston Red Sox for $1,000,000. The club has been in or very near last place in the American League since 1924. Knowing Boston for an enthusiastic baseball town, Sportsman Yawkey set out to rebuild the team. Including last week's deals he spent $405,000 for new players. Also he replaced Marty McManus with Bucky Harris as manager. Result: dopesters conceded Boston a good chance to finish high next year. Philadelphia's Catcher Cochrane went...
...R.F.C. with added grants for its financing. This is a much neglected but very important sector of the Recovery program; on it devolves the responsibility for huge loans and expenditures to offset the paralysis of the private money markets. The R.F.C. may be a hangover from the wicked Hoover regime, but it has its points, nevertheless. CASTOR...