Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...next President decides to scramble debts, disarmament and world trade all up in that parley he would have a long search for a Secretary of State so well trained by experience in the practicalities of such problems as Norman Davis. But perhaps Mr. Roosevelt will find him as Mr. Hoover has, even more useful without portfolio...
...When the converging marchers reached the District of Columbia line. Superintendent Brown's men appeared as a reception committee. "We'll hang Herbert Hoover to a sour apple tree!" cried the Reds. The business-like police conducted them to a new street, not yet opened to traffic, between a high bank and a railroad yard. There, inside a police cordon, the marchers were told to make themselves at home in their trucks. There was a food shortage. It was cold. The marchers jeered the police, waved their Red banners. Across the city they could see their objective...
Fiscal 1931 produced a Federal deficit of $903,000,000. Fiscal 1932 closed with the Treasury $2,472,000,000 in the hole. For current 1933 a deficit of $1,146,000,000 is indicated by June 30*. Last week President Hoover sent to Congress the 1934 Budget in which a fourth deficit of $307,000,000 was forecast. On such a showing President Hoover would have the unhappy distinction of being the first President to complete his term with his budgets continuously unbalanced...
...President Hoover was determined to make one last fighting stand against another deficit. Said he in his budget message...
...months President Hoover and James Clawson Roop, his budget director, had been whittling and pruning at Federal expenses in an unsuccessful effort to level up outgo and income without resorting to new taxation. Director Roop, a large, round-faced man through whose tight lips pass nothing but a pipe stem, practices none of the noisy drama of the first occupant of his office (Charles Gates Dawes) or the publicized penny-pinching of the second (the late Herbert Mayhew Lord). Few U. S. officials see their President more often or more easily than Mr. Roop. Yet, utterly modest...