Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Hoover had promised a cut of $700,000,000 in expenses. How was this to be obtained? The President offered Congress two legislative proposals to increase 1934 savings...
...electorate set three records. It gave Franklin Delano Roosevelt the biggest winning vote for President in history. It gave Herbert Hoover the biggest vote of any losing nominee. The total vote - about 39,000,000 - surpassed the 1928 record by some...
Last week the Associated Press compiled the popular vote, with 30 States officially complete and the others nearly so, as follows: Roosevelt, 22,314,058; Hoover, 15,575,474. The Hoover vote was 559,031 more than the Smith vote in 1928, the Roosevelt vote 921,868 more than the Hoover vote of that year. The Roosevelt plurality (6,738.584) was still exceeded by that given Calvin Coolidge (7,338,513) over his major opponent in 1924 when the La Follette ticket got almost five million votes. Despite the size of his popular vote President Hoover remained the most badly...
Awarded. Lorado Taft, sculptor, the annual gold medal of Manhattan's Holland Society for achievement in art; the Duchess of Talleyrand (onetime Anna Gould), the Cross of the French Legion of Honor; Joel Thompson Boone, President Hoover's physician, the Purple Heart medal (recently revived Revolutionary award for war service) and the Silver Star medal; Radiologist Leon Menville, the gold medal of the Radiological Society of North America for applying Roentgen ray examination to the lymphatic system in cancer work; Nobel Prizeman Prince Louis de Broglie, the 100,000-franc ($3,900) Prince of Monaco grand prix...
Convicted. Conrad Henry Mann, 61, thrice president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, onetime Grand Worthy President of the Fraternal Order of Eagles of which he is now financial director, called to Washington last summer by his good friend President Hoover to sit in his National Business Conference; of conspiracy to conduct an interstate lottery which he helped organize for the Eagles; in Manhattan's Federal Court. The Government showed that ticket holders put up $1,759,273, out of which Eagle Mann pocketed $230,000 after cash prizes amounting to $75,000 were distributed. Possible sentence: three...