Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Isabelo de los Reyes, son of the distinguished publicist of Manila, came to this country as guests of the Unitarian churches of the U. S. and Canada. They were received most cordially by many churches, colleges and universities and by men in public positions. They were received by President Hoover...
...extend the usefulness of the work. Public officials have in the past expressed interest in the city planning and landscape architecture training of the School, and when last year's reduced budget forced curtailment of its operations, letters urging its continuance were received from President Roosevelt and ex-President Hoover...
...national broadcast Senator Burton K. Wheeler cried: "Every labor leader, every farmer and every progressive-minded citizen in the United States would have been shocked and protested from the housetops if President Harding, President Coolidge or President Hoover had even intimated that they wanted to increase the Supreme Court so as to make it subservient to their wishes. The progressives would have said, and rightly so, that it was fundamentally unsound, morally wrong and an attempt to set up a dictatorship in this country...
...continual infusions of new blood. Although Senator McKellar last week gradually emptied the Senate with two hours of bumbling oratory, he succeeded before doing so in getting over a pertinent point: President Taft appointed five Supreme Court justices, Harding in a little more than two years appointed four, Hoover appointed three. Only four Presidents have had no chance to appoint even one justice: William Henry Harrison (who was President for only a month), Zachary Taylor (President for only 16 months); Andrew Johnson (because a hostile Congress reduced the size of the Court) and Franklin Roosevelt, during whose four years...
...that America entered the Great War, he held the position of assistant in the Department of State. At the conclusion of the war, Herter, who was born in Paris, acted as Secretary for the American Commission to Negotiate Peace in Paris. Shortly after the war he worked with Herbert Hoover on the European Relief Council, of which he was executive Secretary. He continued to work with Hoover as he held the position of assistant in the Department of Commerce from...