Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Urschel said, in substance, that after the kidnappers left with her husband and Mr. Jarrett, who with his wife were dinner and bridge guests, she went upstairs and phoned the Federal officers. After they arrived, a long distance phone call was made to Mr. Hoover at Washington and report was made to him of the kidnapping. She said she did this because "that afternoon, we had read in TIME that this was the thing to do in case of a kidnapping...
Castor tells me that the appearance of Hoover Geheimrat on a Boston silver screen today was the touchstone for a truly inspiriting burst of applause. It was almost as if the new era had not already become the old one, and brought back many memories of the days before the Geheimrat was a grand symbol of spoof, a kind of national jest in apostolic succession to the mother-in-law. Castor diagnosed this as a popular reaction to personal success after personal failure, a sense of comfortable relief among us that he will not be the traditional ex-president, heavy...
...knew the private White House lives of the last ten Presidents so well as Ike Hoover. No loose-lipped gossip could have held his confidential job for 42 years. Once he was offered $50.000 to write his memoirs. He refused, saying: "When I pass out, everything I know goes with...
Footnote to Prohibition history: Boston's Arthur Race, addressing the American Hotel Association last week at Del Monte, Calif., said, "Last September President Hoover called me to Washington and told me he favored repeal of the 18th Amendment as soon as possible. He told me of the magnitude of the bootlegging and speakeasy industries. He said they should be eliminated as soon as possible. But still he would not tell the people of the U. S. that and he asked me not to make our conversation public...
Died. Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover, 62, longtime White House majordomo; of heart failure; in Washington...