Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pledge. But many a silk-stocking Republican, to whom LaGuardia's radicalism is repugnant and who remembers how the gallant major bedeviled Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, would quietly cast his vote for handsome, upright young Joe McKee. Adding Republican momentum to its original Democratic impetus, McKee's cueball had already clicked off O'Brien's white-ball, was rolling toward LaGuardia's redball. It looked as though a Hooverite kiss would make a Rooseveltian billiard. Wall street was betting 2-to-1 it would...
...California, Herbert Clark Hoover stopped in Ogden to talk with Utah's former Senator Reed Smoot told reporters: "I have discovered a new method of enjoying life. To those who seek relaxation and to those who want to know how to go about enjoying the best in life. I recommend that they take an automobile out on the highway. Never mind about where you are going. Just go. If you want to turn down this byway, do it. If you want to drive farther and turn down another side road, do that. It's delightful...
Charles F. Adams '88, former Treasurer of Harvard College and Secretary of the Navy in the Hoover Cabinet has been elected president of the Harvard Alumni Association, succeeding James M. Morton...
Engaged. Dorothy R. Fell, 20, daughter of the late John R. Fell, socialite sportsman and banker who died of a knife wound in Java last winter (TIME, March 6). and of Dorothy Randolph Fell Mills (wife of President Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Mills); and Woolworth Donahue, 18, 5? & 10? heir (grandson...
...Centre Market as the Stock Exchange's main trading floor. Upon the brokers' exodus, the State would stand to lose perhaps $30,000,000 in annual taxes. Worse, the bankers were wringing their hands over what would happen to downtown realty values. The grass that Herbert Hoover had predicted under a Democratic Administration could now almost be seen sprouting in Wall Street...