Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his first two months in office Secretary of the Treasury Woodin went through the banking crisis, the gold embargo and the inflation excitement with the help of able Republicans left behind by Herbert Hoover. At his right hand was Arthur Atwood Ballantine as Undersecretary and at his left James Henderson Douglas as Assistant Secretary. Francis Gloyd Await acted temporarily as Comptroller of the Currency. David Burnet continues as Commissioner of Internal Revenue and Walter Orr Woods as Treasurer of the U. S. Governor Eugene Meyer of the Federal Reserve Board lay low until his successor could be found...
Democrats all. The three empty chairs were silent reminders of the fact that President Roosevelt had not yet gotten around to filling three Republican directorships. The business before the board was the election of a chairman, a post vacant since March 4 when bald, bumbling Atlee Pomerene, Hoover appointee, was forced out by the Senate's refusal to confirm his nomination. Together went the Woodin, Couch and McCarthy heads. When they came apart Jesse Jones, Houston publisher, realtor, banker, lumberman and promoter, found himself unanimously elected R. F. C. chairman. Chairman Jones has been...
...court has heard it would appear that the cause must ever remain in the realm of conjecture." Meanwhile the joint Congressional committee of investigation went to Akron to begin hearings. Sunnyvale, Forty miles south of San Francisco in the orchard land of the Santa Clara Valley, hard by Herbert Hoover's Palo Alto, is a field of pure gold with a silver mound in the centre. The gold is a carpet of California poppies. The silver is the shimmering aluminum paint of an airship dock, second in size only to the Goodyear-Zeppelin dock at Akron. The whole...
...first choice for Secretary of the Treasury. Virginia's Senator Carter Glass. He it was who wrote the 1932 platform plank pledging the Democracy to a "sound currency at all hazards." During the campaign he arose from a sick-bed to deliver a deadly attack upon Herbert Hoover's fiscal program which won him 5,000 messages of congratulation. He turned down the Treasury portfolio because he thought he could be of more service to the new President in the Senate. If he had accepted that post March 4, he would certainly have resigned it last week...
...Milk St., Boston, Mass,--I Conant tell you who the next president will be but Hoover he is he will be Merriman tonight. I don't want to Shattuck any hopes but the Overseers have their Baxter the wall. While they may Perry the Corporation's first thrust, they haven't much Lee-way. Now Prexy must be a Munn whose Wadsworth a lot so he will not drive up to the president's house in a second-Han'ford. There is always the grand-father Clark in the corner. But cooney Corporation will pick man whose name...