Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hated by Herbert Hoover, Mencken, Hitler and Mussolini is good enough liberal for most...
...suggest that a "liberal" is one who desires and works for greater freedom of thought and action for others. Examples: the barons at Runnymede, Martin Luther, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Herbert Hoover...
Early in the Great Depression, President Hoover pledged industrialists to maintain wages in spite of falling prices. Since he has assumed the whip, President Roosevelt has continually tried to force wages higher as a prosperity measure. Now, in immediate prospect is an increase to a flat nation-wide minimum of 40 cents an hour together with a 40 hour per week maximum. These measures have arisen out of a native confidence in under-consumption theories of depression. Two administrations have assumed that the path of roses to prosperity lies in boosting wage incomes so that laborers buy more...
With hundreds of stations all on the same frequency, radio sets from one end of the country to the other began to squeak & squawk with interference. Secretary Herbert Hoover called a conference of all radio interests, and a definite broadcasting band was set aside. This solution was only temporary. Stations grew steadily in number and power until all wave lengths were occupied. The Department of Commerce thereupon declined to issue any more licenses. A 1926 Federal court decision threw the whole situation into chaos again by ruling that the law did not authorize Secretary Hoover to make individual wave length...
...fearless Presbyterian Elder, in 1918 he armed a number of citizens as special police officers during a bloody streetcar strike, survived a recall vote that followed the disorders and picked up a local reputation for political effectiveness. In 1928 he jumped the Democratic Party to work for Mr. Hoover. Mr. McNinch is against liquor (he keeps a vacuum jug of milk on his desk) and Mr. Al Smith is not. President Hoover rewarded Frank McNinch with a seat on the Federal Power Commission...