Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major deadlock. NRA looked forward fearfully to a knock-down-&-drag-out fight. General Johnson had bluntly hinted to steelmen that they could not qualify the law by such labor clauses. When the hearing opened President Robert Patterson Lament of the Iron & Steel Institute (since leaving Washington as President Hoover's Secretary of Commerce) announced amid great applause that the industry had agreed to knock the company union provision out of its code. "But," warned Mr. Lament, "this does not imply any change of attitude. The industry still believes in its method of employe representation and its members will...
Washington, D. C.--Herbert Hoover built a great department of commerce building but Franklin D. Roosevelt made it famous. The structure now houses the national recovery administration, not to mention the federal home loan bank board and its child, the home owners loan corporation, and the far-reaching activities of the commerce department...
...efforts. The nation will have district recovery boards and state recovery councils. These all overshadowing the regional administrations and the state advisory boards for public works and the state advisory boards for the home owners loan corporation and such minor machinery. Not a commission among them, however, Herbert Hoover's friends no doubt note...
...four years President Hoover named 78 ambassadors and ministers of whom 32 were career men. In less than five months the President has named 23 ambassadors and ministers of whom nine were career men. Yet to be elected is a President who will appoint a career man to one of the service's four biggest posts-London, Paris, Berlin, Rome. Under Hoover three professionals became ambassadors and under Roosevelt, so far, the same number have received that rank. In Belgium, Greece, Spain and Rumania the President turned out career men to put in political prot...
...Detroit is convinced that its banking woes were due to governmental bungling. Last week Judsie Keidan, who is investigating the Detroit fiasco in the role of a one-man grand jury, announced that he would subpoena Herbert Clark Hoover...