Word: hoover
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Important though Agriculture is, it alone does not control U. S. economy. If deflation continues through 1933 and the general trend of all prices is downward, Secretary Wallace will be unable to buck the economic tide and the Roosevelt plan will go down as a failure along with the Hoover Farm Board. If all prices start to rise on a broad front, Secretary Wallace will be able to accelerate the advance of farm values, get credit for a shining success. The major factors which will decide the economic fate of the farmer, according to Pundit Walter Lippmann, are "the monetary...
...Federal Farm Board created by President Hoover in 1929; The Federal Farm Loan Bureau set up in the Treasury by President Wilson in 1916 to supervise the Federal Land Banks and the Joint Stock Land Banks and in 1923 the Intermediate Credit Banks; The Agricultural Credit Corp., an adjunct of Reconstruction Finance Corp. established in 1932; The Crop Production Loan Bureau of the Department of Agriculture dating back to 1921; and the same department's other Co-operative Loan Bureau...
...Proceedings of the U. S. Congress have been broadcast on special occasions-President Hoover's speech on Washington's Birthday, 1932; the Coolidge Memorial service last January: the first day of this year's special session. Plans are afoot, but strongly opposed, to install permanent broadcasting equipment in both House end Senate...
...Herbert Hoover personally appointed Colonel Mann but he was placed in an office far removed from the Republican National Committee (which nevertheless financed his work). The New York World sent an investigator to Colonel Mann's office to ask for "nonpolitical literature" on Candidate Smith. She was directed, she said, to the office of the scurrilous Ku Klux Klan sheet, The Fellowship Forum ("Roman Catholic Clerical Party Opens Big Drive to Capture America for the Pope"). This Colonel Mann denied, crying, "Who arranged this frame-up?" Nevertheless, Roman Catholics continued to regard him as responsible for much...
After the election Colonel Mann stepped forward to claim credit and his share of Southern patronage. President Hoover spurned him. Thereafter Colonel Mann nursed his grievance, appeared briefly in the news when he tried to start an anti-Hoover movement before last year's convention (TIME, Dec. 21, 1931). He was heard of no more until last week- when he became a Roman Catholic...