Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seen by 1,200,000,000 people per month; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. In 1933, Barren Collier, always a big-time speculator, announced he was broke, declared a moratorium, became the first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the amendment to the bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed day before he left office...
Party rebellion is no new thing in U. S. history. (The Republican Party found its left wing rebellious in the Coolidge-Hoover era.) Rebellion by the substantial leaders of a party against their leader-in-chief is rarer. And the rebellion which John Nance Garner now leads is rarer still in that it is, save in small things, almost intangible-less a rebellion than a resistance. It is nonetheless the biggest political struggle now going on in Washington...
...Administration's chief fiscal officer is no new pastime for hard-shelled, money-wise old Senator Glass. Neither is it for Mississippi's long-legged, long-nosed Pat Harrison. Together they were the most painful and damaging Democratic snipers on the flanks of the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover Administrations. Then their victims were shy old Andrew Mellon and Utah's mournful Reed Smoot, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Four years of responsibility as Senate Finance Chairman during the first New Deal and a lifetime habit of party loyalty changed Pat Harrison from a sniper...
...helped mow Cliveden's lawn. Since Bolshevists Leonid Krassin (died, 1926) and Gregory Sokolnikov (since "purged") were once entertained at Cliveden, Lady Astor thought Kremlin Set might be a more apt title for those she entertained. Other Cliveden Set members: Charles Chaplin, Will Rogers, Emma Goldman, Herbert Hoover, James Ramsay MacDonald, numerous Rhodes scholars...
...First objective of the Republicans' drive to discontinue "emergency" powers conferred upon President Roosevelt since 1933 was to defeat a bill continuing the life of Reconstruction Finance Corp. (Author: Herbert Hoover. Chairman: Jesse Jones) from next June 30 to June 30, 1941. After House Republicans had failed to beat the bill, in the Senate Michigan's Vandenberg precipitated hot debate by objecting to an increase of $20,000,000 in the capital of Disaster Loan Corp. (RFC offshoot). At length a clerk informed the sheepish Senate that it had already settled that issue when it passed...