Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year became State chairman. The Roosevelt-Taft split checked him momentarily, but he reorganized his machine Statewide, filled its treasury and from 1915 to the dawn of the New Deal reigned supreme. In 1920 Roraback moved on to the Republican National Committee. Even in 1932 he saved Connecticut for Hoover...
...does not know Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton well enough to surmise whether he has the requisite "iron in his soul'' to ride roughshod over the wishes of this or that segment of his followers, Mr. Michelson indicated his opinion by suggesting another candidate: Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Livingston Mills. "He is a vigorous fellow, with perhaps the best mind among those who entertain the ultra-capitalistic theories. He has, in addition, that quality of autoappreciation which is variously translated as egoism or self-confidence. That is not a quality which...
...those imbeciles was smart enough to establish a house of prostitution in Baltimore. Whether any connection still exists between the traffic in housemaids and in prostitutes was something which Baltimoreans had to think about last week when J. Edgar Hoover of the Federal Bureau of Investigation suddenly pounced upon ten local houses and arrested 50 women. He believed them all victims of white slavery, pawns of a far-flung ring. Said he: "Conditions are very...
There lay the real cause of the Hindenburg disaster, for Germany has no helium. It is a U. S. monopoly. The willingness of Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt to sell Germany enough helium to fly the Graf and the Hindenburg on peaceful missions was offset by the price factor (more than 30 times as expensive, for 20% less payload efficiency) and by covert political opposition. As Columnist Dorothy Thompson wrote: "The destruction of the Hindenburg was an act of sabotage. For the peaceful world today, the world that seeks to join hands in the perfection of greater technologies, that seeks mutual...
Donald Wakefield Smith, 38 and the Board "baby," is a roly-poly, volatile, sharp-tongued onetime Philadelphia lawyer who would rather not be reminded that he looks like Herbert Hoover when he smiles. Boardman Smith knows how workers feel because his father was once a steel-worker and he himself worked in the mills to earn his way through Coraopolis, Pa. high school. As a lawyer, he specialized in labor and immigration cases...