Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson,71-year-old Virginian, issued his first policy sheet for the U. S. Navy under Democratic rule. The last general statement of naval policy was made Aug. 4, 1931 by Secretary Adams but soon became a dead letter because of President Hoover's indifference toward the Navy. Now the Navy has a great & good friend in the White House-a fact which gave the Swanson Policy Sheet a new ring of determination, sent a thrill of hope and elation throughout the service. Like his predecessor, Secretary Swanson promised: "To create, maintain...
...colossal Department of Commerce building. His clothing askew, his eyes bloodshot for want of sleep, he was receiving fidgety and excited businessmen at the rate of 100 per day. Occasionally he would pick up a telephone, perhaps to bark, as he did to Motormaker Roy Dikeman Chapin (Hudsons), Hoover Secretary of Commerce: "I've been listening to that line of bunk from you fellows long enough. You'd better change your tune. Good...
Slyly recalling the high hopes of the Coolidge-Hoover New Era, Democrat Young declared...
...McClintic chairman of a patronage board to prod the Administration for more jobs. Representative McClintic discovered that of the 800 places in the Library of Congress, only 50 were held by party followers. He wanted something done about that right away. He also found that Presidents Harding, Coolidge & Hoover had by executive order "blanketed" into the Civil Service 4,500 jobs. Representative McClintic wanted President Roosevelt to issue another executive order blanketing them...
Elected. To be trustees of: Mills (Oakland. Calif, women's college), Herbert Hoover; of Cornell, Publisher Frank E. Gannett; of Brown, Charles Evans Hughes Jr. To Harvard's Board of Overseers: Political Pundit Walter Lippmann, Banker Henry Sturgis Morgan...