Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ridiculous," snorted Governor Rolph at charges of his culpability in the Missouri affray. "The cases are not at all parallel." But no sooner had he riposted that assault than he found himself attacked from another quarter. Twenty-five Californians including Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, signed a statement declaring Governor Rolph's attitude a "humiliation and shame" to the State...
...single shot was fired," hotly replied Mr. Hoover, breaking silence for the first time on last year's Battle of Anacostia Flats, "not a single person was injured by the troops called out in Washington in response to the appeal of local authorities. The troops ended the bloodshed which was then in progress through conflicts between rioters and police. The issue here is plain and not to be obscured by such misstatements...
...Citizen Hoover's opinions of lynch law were not shared by the San Jose grand jury which adjourned without asking for the identity of their "patriotic" fellow townsmen...
Thus did the nation's most dramatic lynching week leave Albert Cabell Ritchie the unhappy victim of a situation which, had it occurred in any other week, would have been relatively unimportant. As it was, Conservative Mr. Ritchie found himself in the same boat with Conservative Mr. Hoover, whom he had often criticized. So completely had a nation-wide fog of emotion obliterated the channels of logic that the tabloid New York Daily News observed: "Our own notion is that it is another chapter in the world-old story of the fight between the Haves and the Havenots...
Died. Alexander Legge, 67, president of International Harvester Co., first chairman of President Hoover's Federal Farm Board, onetime vice chairman of the War Industries Board and head of the Allied Purchasing Commission; of a heart attack; in Hinsdale, near Chicago. Born on a Wisconsin farm, he had only three months' schooling when he got a job with International Harvester, rose to a position which no other man outside of Chicago's McCormick family has held. A huge, blunt man, he made Washington hostesses and diplomats uneasy, advised his critics to go to Hell...