Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...With respect to your general doctrine that a deficit will bring about business recovery, I call your attention to the fact that Mr. Hoover did very well in this matter. He had a deficit of $3,153,000,000 in 1932 preceded by a deficit of nearly a billion...
...campaign, in attacking the costliness of Herbert Hoover's government, he declared that "You cannot go very far with any real Federal economy without a complete change of concept of what are the proper functions and limits of the Federal Government itself." Last week he told Congress practically the same thing-that a third of the Government's activities would have to be cut out to balance the budget. But last week he used the statement as a conclusive argument against reducing expenditures...
...Boys. Felix Frankfurter's notes recommending young lawyers-over a scrawled "FF"-fluttered into Washington long before the New Deal (Corcoran, for instance, was a gift to Hoover's RFC). The fact that 125 "happy hot dogs" are in Washington today spurred General Hugh Johnson to call Professor Frankfurter "the most influential single individual...
...Republicans like Herbert Hoover this kind of thing is blatant propaganda, in which Government money is squandered to keep the Government in the hands of one regime. New Dealers defend it as an up-to-date and effective way of letting the people know how their money is spent. Just how much expense and ballyhoo is justifiable in passing out such information is the main point at issue. There is another point: since 1913 there has been a U. S. law forbidding any Federal agency to hire a "publicity expert" without a specific appropriation...
WASHINGTON Officials close to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, denied on his behalf tonight published reports that he will soon resign. They said the reports are "without foundation in fact...