Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Awaiting the start of a special session called before the current slump had been diagnosed as much more than a technical reaction in stocks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt spent the week much as Herbert Hoover spent November's second week eight years ago: holding conferences to find some way to halt the decline, to restore confidence throughout the land...
...Reserve Board, President Henry C. Turner of Turner Construction Co., Banker S. Sloan Colt. When the stock-market promptly registered a hopeful advance after these conferences, it was so much like old times that the New York Sun printed a parallel series of 1929 and 1937 headlines. In the Hoover tradition, but not the Hoover manner, the President let it be known that he hoped to end the decline not by Government spending but by doing all he could to persuade private capital to take up the slack caused by the curtailment of Government spending. This maneuver entailed a Recession...
Coolidge and Hoover were in the White House, and no ill-advised legislation was rushed through without consulting the Chamber of Commerce. It was the era of great athletes: Bobby Jones, Red Grange, Bill Tilden, Cochet, Howie Morenz, Eddie Shore at his best, the Babe, the Rajah, Man o' War. It was a period of cocktail parties and three day parties. It was gilded, vicious, but a hell...
...confirmed report that President Conant will attend Saturday's game with ex-President Herbert Hoover has revived the recent rumor concerning a proposition made to the University head asking him to serve on the Republican program committee...
Should there be any foundation to the belief that President Conant may give up political neutrality, Hoover may find himself drafting enough college presidents to form a majority of the policy-planning committee...