Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Predicting there will be no general war this year, Herbert Hoover sailed into Manhattan this week on the French liner Normandie, wound up a tour of 15 countries in nearly all of which he is as popular as Santa Claus, was rousingly cheered, hailed as an American Liberal...
Arriving in France six weeks ago, Mr. Hoover headed straight for Belgium, which country he had served with over $500,000,000 of food, clothing and funds from 1915 to 1919. The Chamber of Representatives stood and cheered as it was announced that the "Friend of Belgium," the title conferred by the late King Albert I, was on his way (TIME, Feb. 28). In a seven-day "sentimental journey" he toured reconstructed War areas, which he had not visited since he accompanied President Wilson in 1919. After conversing with young King Leopold III, Premier Paul Emile Janson and Foreign Minister...
...Vive l' Amérique!", "Vive Monsieur le Président!" echoed in the cobbled streets as Mr. Hoover, accompanied S. Pinkney Tuck, today U. S. Embassy Counselor at Brussels and in Paris often host to the Duchess of Windsor when she was Mrs. Simpson, drove into Lille. Day before, Mr. Hoover had informed correspondents that he was off on a swing through Europe. Asked if he intended to gather political information firsthand, he replied, smiling: "I intend to look and listen...
...first look, he headed for Paris, had his car sideswiped on the way in the reconstructed town of Arras, called in the top-flight Paris correspondents, questioned them closely on the European political situation. Next day Looker & Listener Hoover conferred with President Albert Lebrun in his Elysée Palace. During a brief stay in Geneva he piqued League officials by ignoring their new $10,000,000 palace, instead motored to nearby Morges and chatted "about old times" with his friend of 40 years, 77-year-old Pianist-Politician Ignacy Jan Paderewski, former Premier of Poland, now in Switzerland...
...Hoover warmed to his task and, month ago, pushed on up into Austria to confer with chunky President Wilhelm Miklas. To cheering Viennese engineering students he proclaimed "Statesmen seek peace through laws and conferences, sometimes forgetting that engineers can give them the things that make peace." Nine days later, with Guest Hoover then in Poland, Austrian Host Miklas lost his job and German troops took possession of Austria...