Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wesleyan College and Yale University, studied law at the University of Virginia, Columbia University, the Sorbonne in Paris. His education was polished off with four years in the Kentucky Legislature and a War-time first lieutenancy in the Army. At the behest not of Franklin Roosevelt but of Herbert Hoover he left his comfortable law practice in Maysville to go to Washington in 1929 as attorney for the Federal Farm Board...
Trend. Only comfort the President could give Congress was that the trend of deficits had turned downward from the 1934 peak. But 1939 will bring the Government's ninth consecutive deficit-three of them Herbert Hoover's, six Franklin Roosevelt's. The deficits for fiscal years in millions of dollars...
Died. George Edward Akerson, 48, bulky, breezy onetime pressagent and secretary to Herbert Hoover who quit his White House post in 1931 to take a $30,000-per-year vice-presidency in Paramount Publix Corp.; two hours after receipt of a holiday telegram from the ex-President; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
...line sent ashore. The inexperienced sailors-last minute pickups from West Coast hiring halls-according to passengers, capsized two lifeboats in shallow waters trying to land the line. Miraculously without loss of life, all passengers landed on the islands during the next 36 hours. Meantime, on board the President Hoover an unruly group of the crew-estimated from "a dozen" to "most of them"-broke into the bar and began a party. They then decided to visit the passengers on shore and, commandeering boats, the roistering, singing band descended on the island early the first night of the accident...
...natives." However, when the liquored seamen began hunting for women passengers sleeping in scattered houses ashore, some officers and other passengers formed a vigilante group to protect them. There was no actual molestation. There would have been no disturbance at all ashore, said some of the passengers, if the Hoover's officers had been permitted by Japanese police to land with their guns. What cleared the air was the arrival of two U. S. destroyers, whose crews did come ashore with guns and put an end to the unsettled situation...