Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...potent McCann-Erickson Advertising Agency, he is a strict office disciplinarian, a busy executive, and though he has finished no commercial drawings for 20 years, he still makes layouts and rough sketches for Del Monte Peaches and Standard Oil of California. For five years he served with Herbert Hoover on the San Francisco Art Commission, has exhibited frequently in West Coast shows...
Jounced awake the same night in a San Francisco hotel was Joseph S. Cullinan, 76, robust, snowy-haired co-founder and first president of Texas Co. which he left in 1913, apostle of rugged individualism, good friend of Herbert Hoover in whose Wartime food administration he assisted. Alarmed, Mr. Cullinan jumped out of bed, caught a cold which turned into pneumonia, died...
Died. Mark Lawrence Requa, 70, oil mining tycoon, onetime (1932-36) California Republican National Committeeman, crony and California campaign manager of Herbert Hoover in 1928 and 1932; after a fortnight's illness; in Los Angeles. As an official of the Wartime Fuel Administration he instituted gasless Sundays...
...people. While her husband was living, Mrs. Brady-Dame of Malta, Dame of the Holy Sepulchre, holder of the Cross Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice-founded the Carroll Club (for Catholic business girls), visited and gave money to Catholic hospitals, orphanages, homes for the aged. She succeeded Mrs. Herbert Hoover as board chairman of the Girls Scouts of America. Her husband dead (in 1930, leaving her $50,000,000), she accepted Notre Dame's Laetare Medal as the most notable U. S. lay Catholic of 1933, and began thinking of giving "Inisfada" to the Jesuits...
...Lucille Norton, 18, prattled about what she was studying as a freshman at the University of Chicago (TIME, April 22, 1935). Uncle Charles found out that Niece Lucille's reading list in a social science course included books about Soviet Russia in addition to such standbys as Herbert Hoover's American Individualism and Walter Lippmann's A Preface to Morals. Upshot was he decided to withdraw her from school, charged she had been "insidiously exposed" to Communist "influences." A great press uproar and a State Senate investigation followed, but nothing much besides froth came of the whole...