Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lament is a good Republican but that did not deter him from flatly contradicting President Hoover's panicky campaign utterance that the U. S. had been "within two weeks of going off the gold standard." Said he: "Among all the alarums and excursions of the last twelve months we have never been near the point of abandoning the gold standard. Nothing can or will drive us from that standard. . . . American dollars are the safest things in all the world...
...Farmers' Union is Milo Reno's Farmers Holiday Association which sponsored last summer's "farm strike" in Iowa. Striker Reno's threat: "The time has come for direct action. If Roosevelt makes a misstep we'll fight him just as hard as we fought Hoover. We'll come down harder than ever." Meanwhile a farmers' march to Washington for the opening of Congress was also in the making last week. One thousand "delegates" were expected at the Capitol to petition for a mortgage moratorium. In Madison County, Nebraska, where 25 trucks were hired...
...last week strolled that drawling Democrat from Tennessee, Norman H. Davis. A fairly large section of the European Press predicts that Mr. Davis is the next U. S. Secretary of State. Last week, however, he took the spotlight to speak for the man who made his comeback possible, Herbert Hoover...
Four days after Christmas last year President Hoover plucked Mr. Davis from his office at No. 48 Wall Street, sent him to Geneva as one of the two U. S. Democratic delegates to La Conference pour la Limitation et pour la Reduction des Armaments. The Conference has proved disappointing, but not Democrat Davis. He has become indispensable to the President, golfing ably with Sir John Simon in England, slipping over to Paris for a quiet aperitif with Edouard Herriot, journeying to Rome for a naval parley with Benito Mussolini. Precisely because the U.S. Press has not yet caught up with...
Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley accepted the $275,000 monument for the Government. Brigadier General Louis Hermann Bash read a letter from President Hoover, presented the rain-splotched paper to Mr. Wright. Said Mr. Wright: "Thank you." It was his only speech...