Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every time I read about the Hoover Dam controversy, I have a recurrence of the same sickish feeling in the pit of my stomach, that I had when I first read of a suggestion to change the name...
...vote would undoubtedly show that most of our right-thinking and broad-minded citizens would much prefer that the name Hoover Dam be retained, as does Democratic Mr. Paul Clayton, whose interesting letter I have just read in your June 12 issue...
...will always be Hoover Dam to most of us anyway and I am sure that we all-Democrats "and Republicans alike-will feel much better if we can in the not too distant future, have TIME-or President Roosevelt in one of his altogether fascinating and winning, informative radio talks - tell us that the name will again be - officially and finally - "Hoover...
...third night, healthy* and happy, he entrained for New England. "The Prisoner in the White House" (as Herbert Hoover's newspaper friend, Mark Sullivan, dubbed him) had after four months at last escaped to exchange for two weeks the blisses & woes of official life for the blisses & woes of family life...
...Pulaski, Ill. 53 years ago. A civil engineer since 1902, he built cantonments during the War. In 1923 he came to Washington as secretary for the Associated General Contractors of America. For the past two years he has been director of the obscure Employment Stabilization Board, relic of the Hoover...