Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Governor Roosevelt and Secretary Mills, childhood friends, exchanged "Hello, Frank-Hello, Ogden." Professor Raymond Moley, Roosevelt adviser on whose arm the President-elect had been leaning, was introduced. The four men settled themselves in red chairs around a small mahogany table. President Hoover lighted a cigar, Governor Roosevelt a cigaret. Down from their gilt frames gazed Jefferson, Madison, Adams and Grant upon the first White House meeting of a President-reject and a President-elect...
While an ornate mantel clock ticked off the fateful minutes, War Debts, World Economics and Disarmament were soberly discussed behind closed doors. With occasional promptings from Secretary Mills, President Hoover did most of the talking. The situation: Britain, France and Belgium had asked the U. S. to reconsider their War Debts as funded over the past nine years. Pending reconsideration they wanted their Dec. 15 payments suspended.* Only Congress has the power to grant either request but from the President some sort of national leadership was expected. President Hoover favored another commission to negotiate with the debtor powers, hear their...
...Governor Roosevelt and President Hoover parted company over the method of dealing with debtors. Where President Hoover wanted to shift the question to another commission, the President-elect held with Congress that ''the most convenient and effective contacts can be made through the existing agencies and constituted channels of diplomatic intercourse. ... No action by Congress has limited or can limit the Constitutional power of the President to carry on diplomatic contacts and conversation." U. S. Constitutionalists hailed this Roosevelt stand as an important reversion to the historic U. S. method of dealing with foreign governments...
...notes to the effect that the U. S. would expect full payment Dec. 15 and that the President would recommend another debt commission to Congress. Nothing was said about the certain rejection by Congress of this recommendation. Secretary Stimson's language to Britain made it plain that the Hoover Administration considered her plight graver than France's or Belgium's, that revision by capacity-to-pay would be likeliest in her case...
President Hoover went out of his way to "commend a careful study of this report to the professional and community leaders throughout the United States...