Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What living ghost now writes Herbert Hoover's speeches? Who did formerly? What significance in the change...
Living Ghost Hoover...
...Herbert Hoover writes his own speeches, always has. Reason their tone has changed for the better: Smart Hoover friends, like sharp-eyed Sacramento Publicist Ben Allen, argued him into using his private manner in public...
...July 1932, lowest point of the Hoover Depression, the Department of Labor estimated U. S. factory employment at 60.4% of the 1923-25 norm. By March 1937 this index was up to 101%. Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins announced that in March 1938 the figure had fallen to 81.7%. The Roosevelt Depression index showed an increase in non-agrarian unemployed of 50,000 since February, 2,450,000 since March a year...
...Herbert Hoover tried to ease the pain of liquidation but the voters wanted complete relief. So they elected the other candidate. Franklin Roosevelt ditched his economy platform and did what any other man would have had to do in the same position: he gave the U. S. what U. S. wanted-a heroic economic shot...