Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have a candidate for you. TIME should, as the American people do, love a Man Who Comes Back. . . . Not because he came back. In every true sense he never went away. Because he has (and the last election proves it) brought the American People back, I give you-Herbert Hoover...
Citizens who think of Herbert Hoover as ex-President were reminded last week that he is also an experienced engineer, mine owner, ex-prospector...
...Hoover, the miner, was resurrected by a C. I. O. strike at the New Idria quicksilver mine near Hollister, Calif. (100 miles south of San Francisco). New Idria Mining Co. was organized in 1936 by Brother Theodore Hoover, who is president of the company. Engineer Henry W. Gould, vice president and general manager, and State Senator Sanborn Young, a leading sponsor of the antilabor proposal which referending California voters turned down last month. Because war in Spain has curtailed output from the biggest sources of quicksilver. New Idria's business has picked up lately. The mine produces one-third...
...Idria's labor policy would never bag Labor votes for Politico Hoover. About 125 men (mostly Spaniards) work in the ground and in two plants where quicksilver is distilled from cinnabar ore. They toil seven days a week (with pay for overtime), get around $4 a day. live in hovels, pay 20? a pack for cigarets at a company store. Recently they raised a fund for Loyalist Spain, then split over disposition of the money. One group called in C. I. O. organizers, who last week called them out on strike for union recognition. Brother Theodore and associates declined...
...Executive Committee, where New York's Hilles had sat, though his committee back home had not voted for this. As an acknowledged leader of the young, "liberal" element in the party and as a demonstrably able political practitioner, he felt he deserved the place ahead of Herbert Hoover's candidate, Mrs. Ruth Baker Pratt, splendid committeewoman though she is. Unhappily for the party's publicity, Mr. Simpson cried: "The people have left the President, but they will turn to the Republican Party only if they are sure that it is not under the domination of Mr. Hoover...