Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dollar and the pound. They had hardly felt out each other's mind and method before it was bedtime. The Prime Minister slept in what used to be Lincoln's Study. He recalled that when he was last at the White House it had been President Hoover's workroom...
...developments weeks, months, years ago. The echo of the 1929 stock crash had hardly died away be fore the political cry for more and cheaper money took its place. This cry increased as the value of the dollar climbed higher and higher against the value of goods. President Hoover bucked the demand for currency inflation by attempts at credit inflation, most of them unsuccessful...
These deflationary measures were only one-half of the comprehensive plan President Roosevelt had worked out to put the U. S. back on its feet. The other half called for a much-greater-than-Hoover program of credit expansion-the spending of billions of dollars in public works, mortgage refinancing, Tennessee Valley developments, etc., etc. If the President could once get that other half into operation, he believed that he could break the grip of deflation. Last week he was forging ahead with the expansive "inflationary" side of his big plan when he was suddenly stopped in his tracks...
...Economist, and he expounded many arresting theories, among them the theory of the New Era: that profits and prices were going on & on and up & up. He was joint author of several books showing how depressions could be ended forever by just buying and buying. President Hoover read his book, The Road to Plenty...
...Washington. On April 14 the identification division of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation had 3,540,784 records of criminals and Federal civil service employes. It receives 2,200 (average) new prints daily, satisfies 45% of the queries it receives concerning arrested, dead and witless citizens. John Edgar Hoover (no kin), Director of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation, does not want his identification division considered a miraculous detective bureau. Says he, contrary to fictioneers: "Since the . . . system utilizes all ten fingers for the classification and filing of prints, it is extremely difficult for the bureau to identify latent...