Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the possible exception of Herbert Hoover who became famed for other things, John Hays Hammond was the world's most famed mining engineer. From early youth he was familiar with horses, guns and gold mining. He mined gold with Cecil Rhodes, became an intimate of rulers and statesmen, a contented and hale old man in his last years. But his life once hung by a thread when, after the failure of the Jameson Raid into the Transvaal, Hammond was sentenced to death by the Boers for conspiracy. The sentence was commuted and he got off with a fine...
...grey Charles Michelson. oldtime newshawk who became National Committee Publicity Director in 1929 while Jim Farley was still a boxing commissioner. So effectively did he bulls-eye his arrows, after dipping them in pure vitriol, that gasping Old Guardsmen cried out in anguish against Charley Michelson's "Smear Hoover" campaign. When the New Dealers rode into power he was called in to explain them to the country. He smoothed press relations during the Bank Holiday. He wrote speeches trying to sell NRA. In fact, he was supposed to write all the good speeches for the President, his Cabinet...
Scrupulously Mr. Clark pointed out that his "visitors" would not constitute a link with the Federal Government. Having served the State Department for eleven years as solicitor, legal representative, Under Secretary (under Herbert Hoover) and finally as the late Dwight Morrow's successor as Ambassador to Mexico, Mr. Clark well knows that any hint that his dunning agency was an arm of the U. S. Government would play ned with the New Deal's good neighbor foreign policy. Chief job of Mr. Clark's visitors will be to assure the public that the Council is not linked...
Charles Hoyt March, 66, a Hoover appointee reappointed by President Roosevelt; handsome, heavyset, a onetime lawyer whose particular hate is monopolies. His pet case at the moment is the Cement Institute (TIME, July 12). Colonel March's FTC specialty is the legal...
Liberal young Lawyer Garrison crusaded against shyster ambulance chasers and bankruptcy grafters in New York City in the late 19205, was called by President Herbert Hoover to undertake national bankruptcy studies for the Department of Justice in 1930. President Roosevelt called him to be chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934, later a member of the short-lived Federal Mediation Board for the steel strike. His decision in the Houde case (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), ruling that representatives of the majority could bargain for all employes, has since become the Wagner Act's chief Labor weapon. Wisconsin...