Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue thus drawn between President Roosevelt and Mr. Ford seemed to involve much more than just the automobile industry's code. It was the first clean-cut major encounter between the new "robust collectivism" and a prime exponent of the old "rugged individualism." Mr. Ford had supported President Hoover in the campaign. His defiance of the NRA would strike at the heart of the President's recovery program. General Johnson was deeply troubled. He did not want to risk a court fight against the Ford millions. Mr. Ford's higher wage scale than the code...
...Stanford campus and the sedate town of Palo Alto into frenzied gossip and wild surmise. The dead woman had been a popular Stanford co-ed before she married David A. Lamson, 31-year-old sales manager of the Stanford University Press. They were campus socialites, neighbors of Theodore Jesse Hoover, dean of Stan- ford's engineering school and Coolidgesque brother of the ex-President (see cut). Dr. Blake Colburn Wilbur, son of Stanford's President Ray Lyman Wilbur, was their close friend, best man at their wedding. Who could have killed Mrs. Lamson? Her husband? The Stanford campus...
Late last week it was rumored that the defense would call Brother Theodore Hoover as a character witness for Lamson...
Fathered by a bushy-haired, oldtime social worker named Charles Frederick Weller and a chubby little Hindu named Kedernath Das Gupta, the World Fellowship has for chairman famed Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell, for honorary presidents Jane Addams and Herbert Hoover (who let his name be used "if anyone thought it would be of any help...
...talkative James Watson Gerard, 66, Wartime Ambassador to Germany, who three years ago issued a famed list of 64 "real rulers of the U. S." He told newshawks: "That list is no longer significant. Things have changed. In that list I included no statesmen, not even former President Hoover, because the men I did include were too busy to hold public office, yet their influence determined who should hold such office. I could revise the list so that it included 59 leading industrialists, bankers, journalists, and so forth, today, but I could not call them the real rulers...