Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...House: ¶ Passed (249-to-118) a $543,000.000 Independent Offices appropriation bill; sent it to the Senate. A substitute for the measure vetoed March 4 by President Hoover, the bill lopped $451,000,000 off veterans' payments and authorized the President to cancel Government contracts, furlough Army officers on half-pay, retire Federal employes after 30 years civil service and cut Army & Navy flying...
...inflation program calls for the Federal Reserve System to enter the open market and buy up to $3,000,000,000 worth of U. S. securities. With the purchase money commercial banks would expand credit to their customers, help industry and business to get started again. Last year President Hoover tried this method of credit inflation to the tune of nearly $1,000,000,000. It did not succeed because the period was one of liquidation. Now that pressure has been relaxed, if not definitely reversed, President Roosevelt believes that with a strong and sympathetic man at the handle...
...Herbert Hoover's severe handling of the Bonus Expeditionary Force last year helped to lose him the election. For weeks while veterans gathered by thousands in Washington he shut himself up in the White House. Only when they began to get out of hand did he recognize their existence by turning U. S. troops loose upon them with tear gas and fire, by denouncing them as mostly Communists and criminals...
Last week President Roosevelt was confronted with a second Bonus March on the capital. His method of handling it was in marked contrast to that of his predecessor. Opposing prepayment of the Bonus no less firmly than Mr. Hoover, he used the regular Army to befriend the bonuseers upon arrival instead of to bedevil them upon departure...
...Atlas began expediting its work last autumn with a new, cheap recording instrument which makes aluminum discs playable on any phonograph. A pioneer recorder, not actively connected with the Atlas, is Barnard's Professor William Cabell Greet. He has recorded Maine farmers, Blue Ridge mountaineers, Barnard girls, Herbert Hoover, Alfred E. Smith, Nicholas Murray Butler, the late Poet Vachel Lindsay, the London Naval Conference and the late Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...