Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Plans to reorganize the executive branch date back to the turn of the Century. Franklin Roosevelt's plan, introduced just before the scheme to enlarge the court, resembled one proposed by Herbert Hoover. Recognized for what it was-a straightforward attempt to increase efficiency-it occasioned little indignation. The President's subsequent sad effort to streamline the Supreme Court naturally made suspect his efforts to streamline anything else. As redrafted and passed by the Senate, the Reorganization Bill's principal provisions allowed the President to shift executive agencies with certain important exceptions, appoint one man to replace...
...Presidents. Taft was too large to use the marble bath presented to his athletic predecessor by Italy. Wilson had an elevator installed, Harding had it removed. Paper cigar-holder in mouth, yachting cap on head, Calvin Coolidge spent some of his happiest hours aboard her. Then Herbert Hoover ordered the Mayflower sold. Six times the Navy called for bids before a syndicate bought her fire damaged hulk, laid her up for seven years. Auctioned off this month at Wilmington, N. C. for $16,000, rumors of the Mayflower's reblossoming were thick around her wharf last week...
Republican balance sheet as of April 1 is much less impressive. The party has no leader. The only claimants to the title -Messrs. Hoover, Landon, Borah et al.- are not compelling personalities. G. O. P. had 17,000,000 votes at last count but these were able to elect only five Governors, seven Senators, 89 Congressmen. It has no patronage to speak of. In place of able Mr. Farley it has brash Mr. Hamilton, whose talents, whatever they may be, have not had a chance to develop in the atmosphere of stale controversy which has surrounded him since...
...Hoover's one specific proposal was that Europe's War debts to the U. S. be used for exchanging international scholarships. *Republican elephant like the Democratic donkey first appeared in cartoons by famed Thomas Nast...
Ethiopia (TIME, Sept. 9, 1935, et seq.). A typical Ben Smith achievement was his handling of the J. I. Case Co. stock when it tumbled during the Hoover Depression. He kept selling J. I. Case short until he had made huge gains, sloganizing nervous Wall Street at this time with respect to all stocks: "Sell 'em! Sell 'em! They're not worth anything!" Last week famed "Sell 'em Ben" Smith was close-mouthed as usual, but expansive Francis W. Rickett glowingly described his conference with General Lázaro Cárdenas, the "New Deal" President...