Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last month Herbert Hoover, who has been trying to convince his fellow Republican bigwigs that the best way to keep 17,000,000 Republican voters together in lean times is to supply them with a creed, proposed to the National Committee in Chicago that they call a party conference to formulate a positive program. Fearful of the splits this might disclose, the com mittee voted instead to have its creed drafted by the loo most representative Republicans in the U. S. All that remained was for the Republican executive committee to find 100 such suitable philosophers. So last week...
...conventions. To welcome Republican Chairman Hamilton when he arrived late in St. Louis from Washington, reporters asked him about such criticism as that of New Jersey's Robert W. Johnson (medical supplies). In no uncertain terms Mr. Johnson had called for the withdrawal from party councils of Herbert Hoover, Alf M. Landon, and John D. M. Hamilton. Reddening, Mr. Hamilton replied: "No one has the right to read me or anyone else out of the party...
Slowly making her way through dark, unfamiliar waters last fortnight, the Dollar Line's crack 21,936-ton President Hoover ran hard aground on a reef 18 miles off Formosa's east coast, 450 miles north of Manila. There was a heavy swell on, and by daylight the 615-ft. vessel was fast on the rocks for more than half her length. A few hundred yards away the 503 passengers and 330 members of the crew could see tiny Hoishoto Island, and within a mile or two a handful of other Japanese islands-all small, bleak, sparsely inhabited...
...route from Kobe to Manila, steaming down the rock-strewn coast of Formosa to avoid the Japanese-controlled war zone in Taiwan Strait, the Dollar Line's 21,936-ton President Hoover grounded last week a few hundred yards off Japan's Hoishoto Island 500 miles north of Manila. There, with 1,000 passengers and crew safely ashore and on other ships, the $8,000,000 liner was slowly being battered to pieces...
...reads, let alone what he likes to read. Unlike Theodore Roosevelt, who took an active interest in current literature, found jobs for struggling poets (including Edwin Arlington Robinson), and scribbled notes to young magazine contributors whose pieces he liked, Franklin Roosevelt pays little attention to creative writing. Unlike Presidents Hoover and Wilson, he reads few detective stories...