Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Milo Reno's 1932 farm strike, also marked by rural scuffling and vituperative speechmaking, bedeviled the last days of President Hoover. His strike of last spring in Iowa was thrown out of stride in the general enthusiasm over the New Deal. But last week's agrarian trouble had the Administration worried. Sensing a discontent which smoldered deep, President Roosevelt looked about for means of starting a vigorous backfire...
Backfire. Even Calvin Coolidge called conferences on behalf of depressed farmers. Herbert Hoover spent three-quarters of a billion dollars out of the Federal treasury trying to peg wheat and cotton, spent more millions helping farmers' co-operatives through the Farm Board in an effort to pass on to the farmers themselves the problem of marketing surpluses, raising prices, reducing acreage. Last week the oldest co-operative of all, Farmers' National Grain Dealers Association, split in two over policy, and the nation had on hand a 500,000,000 bu. surplus of corn...
...Vice President Dawes's anteroom only to have Calvin Coolidge veto it twice. Both Peek and Wallace used to be Republicans. Wallace shifted parties after his father, Henry Cantwell Wallace, President Harding's Secretary of Agriculture, died in 1924, his last days clouded by Secretary of Commerce Hoover's frustration of his plans for farm aid. Peek changed political horses in 1928 when the G. O. Presidential nomination went to Herbert Hoover instead of to his friend Frank Lowden or his friend Charles Dawes...
...recent appointment of a visiting committee for Stillman Infirmary arouses somewhat the same mingled feelings of hope, tolerance, and mild amusement which formerly accompanied the appointment of another Hoover commission. By the addition of this committee to the staff, the University now has a visiting committee for every week in the year, ranging over work which varies from tasting food to testing professors. It is not to be wondered at, then, if this fifty-second visiting committee is welcomed into the official family with a certain blasé reception...
Died. William Nuckles Doak, 50. Hoover Secretary of Labor, onetime railroad yardman; of heart disease; in "Notre Nid," his Virginia home across the Potomac from Washington...