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Word: hoover (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Moses had a ten-point program for fixing up his part of the world. Woodrow Wilson had 14. Governor La Follette has five and Fulgencio Batista has 20 (see p. 24). Numerically pretty close to the average, therefore, is the eleven-pointer Herbert Hoover has evolved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Points | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

Having recently returned from a fact-finding tour of Europe, having made four speeches in four cities in six weeks, last week busy Mr. Hoover stopped off at a grassroots Republican Convention in Oklahoma City to sum up his proposals for getting the country on the road toward a "system of free men and private enterprise." The steps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Points | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...volume of [the British] Who's Who states Conrad Potter Aiken married 1st, 1912, Jessie McDonald; divorced 1929; 2nd, 1930, Clarice Mary Lorenz; divorced 1937; 3rd, Mary Augusta Hoover...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

Neither. Although on April 8 Clarice Aiken, Wife No. 2, obtained a divorce from Author Aiken in Boston, Mass., he had obtained a Mexican divorce from her last summer, forthwith married Mary Hoover, 30-year-old Boston artist and dancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 9, 1938 | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...doubt of Mr. Ford's post-visit attitude toward the New Deal remained, he would have removed it by his subsequent performances in New York. This, too, was a rare occasion for him. Not since 1932, when he boomed Herbert Hoover for reelection, had Henry Ford delivered a formal address, and he was in New York to address the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association. Beforehand, he again yielded to clamorous newsmen and received them in a private dining room at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Like a Dream | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

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