Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover camp on the Rapidan President Roosevelt motored with family & friends for a Sunday picnic luncheon. He made part of the trip in Mrs. Roosevelt's roadster. It was his first full day outing since March...
President Roosevelt had thought long and hard about this World Conference, which grew out of last year's Reparations meeting at Lausanne. President Hoover, accepting the League's invitation to attend, had despatched to Geneva Edmund Ezra Day of the Rockefeller Foundation and John Henry Williams, Harvard professor of economics, as U. S. delegates to help draft agenda. London was picked as the meeting place and Ramsay MacDonald, Britain's Prime Minister, consented to serve as chairman. Still unsettled was the opening date...
Though in his campaign be disputed the Hoover theme-song that the Depression was "world-wide," Franklin Roosevelt, as President, knows as well as any man that there can be no general economic recovery without the concerted action of all nations. He also knows that the World Conference at London would fail dismally if "opened cold" without preliminary negotiations. He believes in the efficacy of personal contact. He likes to be his own negotiator. And he has been saying for months: "If only MacDonald and I could sit down together...
...Bring Your Family.' Last week a sitting-down-together by the President and the Prime Minister was suddenly and expertly arranged. In London was Norman Hezekiah Davis. President Hoover's Man-about-Europe and now President Roosevelt's Ambassador-at-Large. He called on Prime Minister MacDonald. In Washington two days later Ambassador Lindsay was summoned to the State Department, handed a personal message from President Roosevelt to be transmitted to Prime Minister MacDonald. Excerpt...
That list blocks out the chief talking points for the forthcoming face-to-face discussions at the White House. First concrete objective is some new standard of international exchange to stabilize nighty currencies. The Roosevelt Administration, unlike the Hoover Administration, sees no quick return to an all-round gold standard. Yet last week the Bank of England's gold reserve reached $885.000.000, an all-time high, which pointed toward some sort of de facto stabilization of the pound-provided the dollar is not devaluated. The currency situation upsets normal trade channels because of a low-currency country...