Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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America's only living ex-President, Mr. Hoover, delivered a very moral attack on the Roosevelt administration the other night in Kansas City. From the number of times he used the word "moral", at a rough guess forty times, it is clear that morals are being safeguarded by Mr. Hoover and the Republican party while the Democrats are allowing them to rust. But paragraphs such as the following tend to make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance...
Hugh Gordon Voorhies, II, San Gabriel, California--Herbert Hoover High School, San Diego, California...
...Interior) gave the go-ahead signal to Pacific Constructors, Inc., a 12-company syndicate which successfully bid $35,939,450 for the erection of Shasta Dam. Final moneys for this purpose were voted by the last Congress. The project, which will do for Northern California what Herbert Hoover's Boulder Dam does for Southern California, is now entirely financed by the Federal Government, which hopes to get the money back from water sales in 40 years...
...Crash." Revisiting Harvard in 1924, Ben Cohen walked into his old room. The current occupant was out. His name was Thomas Gardiner Corcoran. They did not meet until nine years later, when T. G. Corcoran had been for a year a cog in the legal staff of President Hoover's RFC. Ben Cohen had signed on to help James Landis draft the Securities Exchange Act. Thrown together on this job, Corcoran & Cohen have been inseparable since...
Eugene Meyer took him to Washington, and in the scrambled days of Mr. Hoover's exit and Mr. Roosevelt's advent, alert young Lawyer Corcoran made himself extremely useful as a personnel man to staff the new administrative agencies with legal talent. For this he was equipped by having run a placement bureau for Harvard Law graduates. Washington became full, and still is, of his "boys," who not only get work done the way he wants it but constitute an argus-eyed personal intelligence service. He particularly delights in drafting able sons of Tory fathers and infecting them...