Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...busy-buzzing bee was President Hoover last week. He was notified by a joint committee that Congress was in session. Said Representative Snell afterwards: "He seemed quite surprised, but said he would communicate with the Congress in writing. ..." The opening of Congress brought a mass of legislative detail to the President's desk. His State-of-the-Union message had to be whipped into final form for the printer. He paraded billion-dollar columns into regimental front for the 1934 budget (see p. 11). Between times he held a series of conferences with Secretaries Stimson and Mills on British...
...required by the Constitution, President Hoover last week sent to Congress his farewell message on the State of the Union. Its undertone was that of the late campaign and the principles it preached were those which the U. S. electorate had rejected for a "new deal." The President might be defeated but he was convinced he was still right. Excerpts from the message...
Colonel Howe, Roosevelt intimate and campaign strategist, will be the back office man to whom wise favor-seekers will turn. Occupying a confidential position approximating that of President Hoover's Detective-Secretary Lawrence Richey, he will make his home in the White House with the Roosevelts...
Action on the proposal made yesterday that Herbert Hoover should be named president of Harvard will not be taken until after the Christmas vacation, University officials declared last evening. In a letter of reply to C. D. Pugsley '09, of Peekskill, New York, who made the suggestion, H. L. Shattuck '01, treasurer of the University, stated that the proposal would be submitted to the Corporation as soon as that body met for the purpose of selecting a president...
President Hoover, George V and Benito Mussolini were among those who sent inquiries to Ford Hospital, Detroit and best wishes for the speedy recovery of Henry Ford, 69, in whose lower abdomen surgeons had made an incision to patch a rupture, at the same time removing the Ford appendix. Careful blood counts the day prior had indicated a probable infection. A relatively new anesthetic, Avertin, was used; it is easy on the heart; the operation lasted some 45 min. All other patients were moved from the third floor of the wing where Mr. Ford lay. The fact behind a fond...