Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House President Hoover was lunching with Secretary of State Stimson. Chief Usher Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover tiptoed into the dining room. Into the President's ear he whispered the news: "Mr. Coolidge has just died of heart failure." After a stunned moment, the President pushed back his chair, laid down his napkin, strode to his office. There he hastily dispatched a special message to Congress, issued a proclamation for 30 days of public mourning. Within five minutes, down to half-staff came the White House flag. Down came the flags of Washington, of the nation...
...President-elect began by accepting President Hoover's own estimate of the 1934 deficit-$492,000,000.* His conferees promptly told him that this was a gross understatement as it anticipated full War Debt payments and was based on revenue estimates by the Treasury which he had flayed in his campaign as misleading and erroneous. But Mr. Roosevelt had no heart for making his job any harder by assuming a larger deficit than his predecessor calculated. He began to cast about for additional receipts with the following results...
...quite so painful" as upping the normal rates. Majority Leader Rainey pooh-poohed the idea of passing any new tax legislation at the present session while Chairman Collier of the Ways & Means Committee spoke of it as a "last resort." The Democratic position shook down to this: If President Hoover signs a beer bill, increased income taxes may not be necessary; if he vetoes it, taxpayers can blame him for added burdens...
...Adopted a resolution by Nebraska's Howard requiring the R. F. C. to report recipients of its $1,054,815,000 in relief loans from February to July 1932. Purpose: "To quiet ugly rumors." ¶Received from the Committee on Expenditures in Executive Departments a resolution nullifying President Hoover's reorganization proposals (see p. 9). ¶ Passed the first deficiency appropriation bill ($31,421,000); sent it to the Senate. ¶Adjourned for the Coolidge funeral...
With elaborate courtesy El National, official newsorgan of Mexico's Government party, praised President Hoover last week for withdrawing the last U. S. Marine from Nicaragua (TIME, Jan. 9), diplomatically concluded: "Mexico was a spectator in this complicated story of international interests fighting an unequal battle. It is not difficult to guess toward which side our thoughts were influenced by fraternal sentiments...