Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...note with regret the decision of the administration to change the name, "Hoover Dam" to the "Boulder Dam," thus still further adding to the confusion of names that has made it necessary for us to answer more than 5,000 letters concerning the "Boulder...
...magnanimous to a defeated President and merciful to an overworked Chamber of Commerce Secretary and let the name "Hoover Dam" stand...
...lists of Morgan "friends" who were cut into stock deals below the market included the names of New Jersey's Senator Kean, Massachusetts' Lieutenant Governor Gaspar Bacon, Edgar Rickard, business associate of Herbert Hoover, Arkansas' Harvey Couch, now on R. F. C., Connecticut's G. O. P. Boss John Henry Roraback. The only "friend" revealed as having turned down a Morgan offer on ethical grounds was Board Chairman Edward Grant Buckland of New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. Partner Whitney made a spirited defense of his firm's practice on the ground that...
Edgar Rickard thought it was "outrageous" to link the names of Hoover and Morgan just because he (Rickard) was on the firm's list. Morgan "friends" were in the Senate (California's McAdoo, New Jersey's Kean), in the Hoover Cabinet (Secretary of the Navy Adams), in the Roosevelt Cabinet (Secretary of the Treasury Woodin), on the Supreme Court (Owen J. Roberts). The Republican party (Treasurer Nutt, New York National Committeeman Hilles) and the Democratic (onetime Chairman Raskob) were both involved. Declared the cautious Kansas City Times: "Those favored by Morgan were placed under obligation...
...operations, security salesmanship. Slated next for examination by Lawyer Pecora and the Senators are Kuhn, Loeb; Dillon, Read. Most prominent victim to date is Charles Edwin Mitchell, now on trial for trying to escape income taxes as a result of testimony he gave the Senate last winter. Under President Hoover the Senate's inquiry was given a twist against Wall Street "bears" whom he imagined were thwarting his recovery program, beating the market down to discredit him. Under President Roosevelt the Committee is out to hunt bad bankers. Ironic was the implication of big Demo-crats along with...