Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Roosevelt got only 45 minutes outside the White House last week- a short motor ride with Secretary McIntyre into Virginia. As swimming is his only exercise and as the Independent Offices appropriation bill carrying funds for a White House pool was vetoed by President Hoover, President Roosevelt was able to take no exercise. The New York Daily News (tabloid) started to collect a Roosevelt Swimming Pool Fund which last week, by dimes and dollars from "forgotten men" and school children, had risen...
...will be shut. The visitor to Manhattan who wants to survey everything in the American Museum must remain in the city at least two weeks-unless he is a student or special investigator. Then he may secure admission to any hall any day. President Davison, who just left Herbert Hoover's service as Assistant Secretary of War for Aviation, knows he must raise money for the American Museum. It is finishing three new wings, can no longer count on much municipal support. This week Mr. Davison makes his first feint at pocketbooks, by speaking before the New York Advertising...
...American Scene" is the headline story of 1932. No attempt is made to plunge beyond or to deny superficiality. Mr. Hill plies with nimble grace about prominent folk, furbishing dull news monotones with sprightly adjectives and keen imaginative sense as to detail. Herbert Clark Hoover who found that there was "something wrong with the blueprints", Franklin Delano Roosevelt who would "rather walk than be president", "Humpty-Dumpty" Ivar Krauger of the "great fall", "Playboy" Jimmy of the "Primrose Path", Smith Reynolds "who had never quite got a grip on life", Dr. Rosenbach whose "little gold pencil flipped up" -- all these...
...probable that the rate of population increase will decline and that it will remain stable at about 160,000,000," said Wesley G. Mitchell, chairman of former President Hoover's research committee on social trends and professor of Economics at Columbia University, when discussing the report of his Committee last night at the Union...
...Edgell '09, dean of the Faculty of Architecture; H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University; C. N. Greenough '98, master of Dunster House and professor of English; Charles Francis Adams '88, former secretary of the Navy; Ogden L. Mills '04, former secretary of the Treasury; Herbert Hoover; Eliot Wadsworth '90, former assistant secretary of the Treasury; and Leverett Saltonstall '14, speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives...