Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program of production control cannot be blamed for this year's low prices, except insofar as it was not drastic enough in the face of huge carry-overs from the bumper crops of 1937. The necessity of some sort of reduction was recognized even by Hoover's Farm Board in the waning days of McNary-Haugenism. So far, the AAA has operated to the direct advantage only of the nation's farmers. Much has been said of the indirect advantages to the nation as whole; recovery was to arrive on the wings of higher farm buying power. Whatever the validity...
Tides in Men. It used to be that when U.S. citizens aged, they had earned and saved their competence, or their kin kept them. The New Deal changed all that. The New Deal quoted technologists to show that the enormous and soulless modern industrial machine (about which Engineer Herbert Hoover used to worry) throws oldsters on an "economic scrap-heap." Like the New Deal Mr. Downey had an inspiration to do something on behalf of what he calls, for campaign purposes, "our senior citizens." It came at a very timely hour when far cannier politicians were beginning...
...choosing as their candidate for Senator a member of "the legal staff of this Administration"-Lawyer John Lord O'Brian of Buffalo (see p. 12}. The shoe was really on the other foot: Lawyer O'Brian also served the U.S. ably under Republicans Taft and Hoover before the New Deal complimented* him by making him a member of its legal staff...
...Herbert Hoover arrived in Kansas City one day last week loaded, primed and cocked to fire his best-prepared forensic broadside of the season into Franklin Roosevelt. Its powder: a charge of lowering the morals of U. S. public life. Just then Franklin Roosevelt's second Peace plea was made public (see p. 9), and Mr. Hoover felt obliged to preface his broadside with a non-partisan salute to Mr. Roosevelt's efforts. Next day, completing Jonah Hoover's bad political luck, his thunder was muffled in obscure columns of the press as the Munich settlement exploded...
...much to ask even of a politician (which is probably not Mr. Hoover's idea of himself) that he define his terms better than is shown in "It is alone the spirit of morals that can reconcile order and freedom," and "There is a moral purpose in the universe." In the substance of his speech he merely showed the intellectual and practical impoverishment of the Republican national leadership by bringing forward the usual vague charges of corruption of the party out of power, and advocated an amateur administration of relief. The Republicans will have to find something more than this...