Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resolution of condolence to the widow of a "great American," asked Mayor Hoan to sign. He refused: "I never did think Wilson was a great American and I won't be a hypocrite by subscribing to such a resolution." For four years he loudly mocked Herbert Hoover's attempt to bring back prosperity. A regular attendant at the annual conferences of U. S. mayors, he was in Washington last May vainly trying to beg, borrow or steal some Federal cash to help Milwaukee's unemployed. Though he talks much about the efficiency and cheapness of his city...
Foremost among the TIME actors are William Adams who speaks as two Presidents. Roosevelt and von Hindenburg, Jack Smart who speaks as Huey Long; Ted de Corsia who does Mussolini and Herbert Hoover. Alfred Shirley is three British subjects, Ramsay MacDonald, the Prince of Wales and Mahatma Gandhi. Marian Hopkinson is Mrs. F. D. Roosevelt; Westbrook Van Voorhis, Hitler; Porter Hall, Stalin. Barbara Bruce is Frances Perkins and Mrs. James Roosevelt (the President's mother). Remains to be seen whether Pedro de Cordoba (ex-King Alfonso of Spain), John Battle (Vice President Garner) and Charles Slattery (Al Smith) will...
...frankly admitted warning President Hoover that if the R. F. C. made a huge loan to Detroit's big banks he would "denounce it from the housetops," but he asserted Washington officialdom from President Hoover down was opposed to the loan and for the same reason: inadequate security. The R. F. C., he said, was gun-shy after the public furor over Charles Gates Dawes's $90,000,000 loan and, aware of the nation wide banking crisis, was leery of sinking millions in Detroit. Furthermore R. F. C. Chairman Miller considered the loan "immoral" because the collateral...
...price of sugar. To supply the Allies with sugar during the War, Cuba became virtually a one-crop country, suffered terrific hardship when the sugar boom collapsed. In 1924 Conservatives and Liberals united to elect Gerardo Machado who was hailed as a "businessman President" much as was Herbert Hoover later. President Machado has cooperated actively in the Chadbourne Plan of world sugar crop restriction, but with U. S. tariffs soaring higher and higher against Cuban sugar the business of government in Havana became more and more that of preserving order among an impoverished and rebellious people by methods increasingly brutal...
Birthdays. Gifford Pinchot, 68; Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, 62; Herbert Hoover, 59; Dr. Hugo Eckener, 56; Nathalia Clara Ruth Abarbannel Crane...