Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five years ago when Herbert Hoover was President and the U. S. was worried about government deficits, Congress passed an economy bill. Its economies have long since been lost in the shuffle of the New Deal, but one of its provisions, relating not to economy but to spreading work, remains in force: Section 213 decrees that when dismissals from the Government service are made, the first to be fired shall be those who have either a husband or a wife on the payroll. Under it 1,835 employes have been dismissed, 80% of them wives. Loud have been the chants...
...first began to spoil starched dinner parties by discoursing on the inadequacies of Herbert Hoover, then fell under the spell of an errant Philadelphia socialite, William Christian ("Bill") Bullitt. Thereafter his march down the sawdust trail broke into a run. With his Main Line friends he was in disgrace, but soon he was making other friends, Oilman Joseph F. Guffey, boss of Pennsylvania's Demo-cratic machine; David Leo Lawrence, a practical politician born in Pittsburgh's Old Point section down near the conflux of the Monongahela and the Allegheny; Julius David Stern, radical Jewish publisher of Philadelphia...
...weed encircled by a gold ring. Looking inside she saw the name Zachary Lansdowne. Thus, twelve years after the crash of the U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was found the Annapolis class ring of its dead commander. The Navy Department and Commander Lansdowne's friend J. Edgar Hoover had been trying to find the ring since 1925, get it back to his widow, who has since remarried...
...35th honorary degree last winter from Trujillo University in San Domingo, appeared to be satisfied. Nor were there any degrees in prospect last week for the New York Times's commencement-speaking Editor John Huston Finley (30), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27). In their stead 1937 had produced many a new public face...
...President Frederick Harold Stinchfield of the American Bar Association (Bowdoin and Bates), retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke (Bucknell and Columbia), RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones (Temple and New York University), John Gilbert Winant, onetime chairman of the Social Security Board (Oberlin and Knox). G-Man John Edgar Hoover accepted an Sc.D. from Kalamazoo College and an LL.D. from Westminster College (Fulton...