Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week President Hoover gave the U. S. Government the biggest shuffle it has had since War days. Whether the new cards he dealt the country will lie permanently on the table or be blown away by an angry Congress will not be definitely known until...
...President's eleven executive orders affected 58 bureaus, boards, commissions and departments. Fifteen minor independent agencies were to be scrapped. Four new sub-Cabinet jobs were to be created. Declared President Hoover: "I have made no estimate of the extent of the economies which will eventually result from this re-organization program...
...Interior Department President Hoover created an Assistant Secretary for Public Works to whom was to be transferred: 1) river & harbor development and flood control, from the War Department; 2) office of the Supervising Architect, from the Treasury; 3) Public roads, from the Department of Agriculture; 4) some half-dozen small independent building agencies...
President Hoover has invited a group of educators to attend a conference at the White House in January. Its purpose will be to decide on a satisfactory method for preventing a lowering of the present public school standards, for in the last two years the amount of money allotted to schools has decreased while the number of students has gradually increased. As Mr. Hoover and many persons interested in education have realized, this situation cannot continue to exist without bad results...
...sportsmen to pursue, feel overwhelmed by the immensity of the problem's multiple aspect-biological, ecological, argricutural, political, economic, legislative, administrative. Nearly everyone agreed when rotund, bright-eyed Major Littleton Waller Taswall Waller Jr. of Meadowbrook, Pa., son of the soldier who rescued Herbert Hoover & wife in the Boxer Uprising, declared, "Lack of educated man power is the only thing wrong with game conservation." Major Waller was applauded for a three-point program: 1) Let farmers be encouraged to raise game as a standard crop. 2) Let game scientists research widely. 3) Let there be educated an army...