Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mural shows the President at the centre having his picture taken, while Harry Hopkins and James Roosevelt welcome arrivals into a New Deal Heaven. Cherubs above the President's head are Vice President Garner and Postmaster General Farley. In the right hand corner Herbert Hoover, with pitchfork, smiles at Alf Landon on the brink of a fiery pit containing Al Smith...
...local sections" (New York, Washington, Pittsburgh, Chicago). What the membership lacked in numbers, however, last week it made up in distinction when a New York Times story revealed that President Franklin Roosevelt had accepted the first A. P. S. honorary membership,* along with Chief Justice Hughes and ex-President Hoover...
...affiliation with the Society, "that the dignity of his office may not be abused to lend prestige to any movement hostile to the interests of legitimate trade unionism." A similar resolution was dispatched to the Chief Justice, the leftist Guild being entirely willing to let the Society keep Herbert Hoover...
This indisputable fact has lately achieved singular importance in Washington, for a flood of new construction might help stem the ebbing business tide, a notion which also occurred to Herbert Hoover in 1929. What President Roosevelt now proposed was to end the New Deal's power advance-provided the private powermen would accept his theories of rate-making. Since utilities are usually monopolistic, it is universally accepted that for the best public interest their rates should be established and regulated by law. The general theory is that rates should be only high enough to yield enough profit to attract...
...Commission then intervened in the case to attempt to convert the Supreme Court to the "prudent investment" concept. This week, while the Court will be pondering the case, President Roosevelt will discuss his rate-making ideas at the White House with a platoon of potent powermen, as did Mr. Hoover...