Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...near Montauk Point. Because the weather was drizzly, the President lazed about all day, reading, resting. The third day, wearing only a pair of duck trousers, he went off fishing on the sloop Orca under the guidance of bronzed, taciturn Captain Herman Gray, who used to take President Hoover out sailfishing in Florida. President Roosevelt & party got only some sea bass and porgies, no swordfish, no bluefish. one tuna. Remarked Captain Gray: "Fish don't bite any faster for a President than they do for a plumber." That night the Nourmahal cruised off down the coast to land...
Many a time has Henry Ford used the White House as a national sounding board. The most famed occasion was in December 1929, when he rushed out of a conference with President Hoover to startle other tycoons with the announcement that he was raising wages in the face of Depression. Last week the White House became a sounding board of a different sort for long-legged Henry Ford...
...Francisco reporters, John Wade Gordon, 21, said that he was hitchhiking on a California highway, got picked up by a shiny automobile whizzing by. Occupant of the automobile was Herbert Clark Hoover, who speedily learned that Hitch-hiker Gordon, a jobless mechanic, was a relative of onetime Governor Earl Brewer of Mississippi. Said Hitch-hiker Gordon: "He bought me a meal when we got to the Sausalito Ferry, and then he said: 'Well, son, I'm going to take a chance on you. You have an honest face. I'll give you a little money...
Henry Ford, Herbert Hoover, President Roosevelt, Senator James Couzens, the banks' officials, the Depression and J. Pierpont Morgan have all, individually and in sundry paradoxical combinations, been blamed for Detroit's banking troubles (TIME, Aug. 28 et ante). Last week Detroit was amazed to hear that a highly successful 18th Century London stockbroker whose father was a Dutch Jew was really responsible...
...spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Edward Coughlin, testifying before Judge Harry B. Keidan, the one-man grand jury. "These white-carnation bankers and stockmarket gamblers were not to blame. They had been brought up in the school of Ricardo*; and John Stuart Mill and more latterly, Mr. Herbert Hoover." Father Coughlin was putting on a one-man show for the one-man jury. Much to the delight of a hot pack of Detroiters who squeezed into the courtroom, he thumped, ranted and deplored for two full days. He discoursed at length on the subject of gold; he sketched the history...