Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME, in its issue of Jan. 30, states the Congress "adopted a resolution by Pennsylvania's Cochran to void President Hoover's eleven orders for Government consolidation...
...President-reject his last speech is generally his most difficult. On domestic questions his voice has ceased to carry popular authority. On foreign issues the nations of the world are inclined to accord him only the scantiest attention. Such was the problem President Hoover faced last week when he journeyed to Manhattan to deliver his valedictory before the National Republican Club. He solved it with an address on the broad subject of gold...
...With the 30 days of public mourning for Calvin Coolidge over. President Hoover last week resumed White House festivities. At a state dinner to the Vice President, he and Dolly Curtis Gann led the line to the table. Among the 75 guests were John Davison Rockefeller Jr. and Edsel Bryant Ford. Two days later the President entertained 85 diplomats and guests who ate from gold service...
...Arranged last week was President Hoover's departure from Washington March 4. Immediately after Franklin Delano Roosevelt takes the oath, Citizen Hoover will be whisked to Manhattan by special train. There at 6 p. m. he will board the Panama Pacific Liner Pennsylvania, held seven hours for his convenience, and sail to Panama where he will stop for a week to try for giant sailfish before continuing to California on a Dollar Liner. With him will travel his son Allan, Citizens Arthur Mastick Hyde and Ray Lyman Wilbur, possibly Citizen Ogden Livingston Mills...
...Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley. Shrewd at business as well as politics, Secretary Hurley, onetime mule boy in an Indian Territory mine, has been successfully leasing Shoreham office space to his G. 0. P. cronies. Last week he caught the best of all possible Republican tenants when President Hoover, in the name of Lawrence Richey, his detective-secretary, took a four-room suite to serve as a political watchtower overlooking the Democratic scene. Sooner or later wise Washingtonians expected to see this lettering on the door: HERBERT HOOVER, CONSULTING ENGINEER...