Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...correct answer to this rhetorical question is, of course, No. Had the South voted solidly for Hoover in 1932, for Landon in 1936, Franklin Roosevelt would still have been elected in each year by a big margin...
Married. Howard Earle Coffin, 63, industrialist (Southeastern Cottons, Inc., Sea Island Co., Hudson Motor Car Co., National Air Transport, Inc.), host to Presidents Coolidge and Hoover at his Georgia coast estate; to Gladys Baker, 39, Florida newspaper woman; her third husband; in Manhattan...
...worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers dislike fractions
...Jumbo ore assayed as high as $1,495 per ton. Other members of the Austin family staked adjoining claims, signed an agreement among themselves not to sell out except as a group for 50 years. With primitive equipment the Austins were quietly digging out $500 per day when Herbert Hoover suddenly put them on the national mining map last summer. Out of "purely geologic curiosity" the great engineer journeyed across the Sierras from his home in Palo Alto to inspect the Jumbo, was greatly impressed, advised the Austins to hang on (TIME, Aug. 31). George Austin announced that he would...
Maverick studied his constituents with more thoroughness than most politicians, even made a trip through Texas disguised as a hobo (see cut). Even before Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corp. was functioning. Maverick had started a relief experiment, the Diga colony, on a cooperative, barter basis. He was elected to Congress in 1934. has since made a name for himself as a progressive New Dealer. His greatest admiration is not Roosevelt but Senator Norris...