Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During his coming two-week visit to Hollywood Jean Harlow announced she would be hostess to chief G-Man J, Edgar Hoover, who met her at the President's Birthday Ball in Washington, staged a machine-gun demonstration for her amusement...
...political questions was rudely branded either wholly Democratic or purely Republican. Any work of scholarship which dared to peek around a political corner was immediately seized, and the blight of partisanship was forever stamped upon its cover. Republican voters road Republican pamphlets, and convinced Democrats smiled disdainfully at Herbert Hoover's while fetching a dollar for Secretary Wallace's "latest". Into this potpourri of citizens, now that the party quarantine has been lifted, the Editors of the London "Economist" have dropped their appraisal of The New Deal, an appraisal which will both satisfy and dissatisfy Republicans and Democrats alike...
...General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director of the American Social Hygiene Association, a consolidation of well-meaning organizations which then primarily wanted to eradicate prostitution. Soon practically...
...regulation of business are also hard to find. To date, however, acceptances have been received from Adolph A. Berle '13, lawyer, professor, business executive and present Chamberlain of New York City; James W. Hook, president of the Geometrical Tool Company of New Haven and a member of President Hoover's National Organization of Unemployment Relief, and Charles W. Kellogg, chairman of the Board of The Engineers Public Service Corporation. Beside these three, a large number of men are still unheard from; more business men have been queried with regard to this table than any two others...
Engaged. Allan Henry Hoover, 30, younger son of the 31st. President, California rancher; and Margaret Coberly, of Los Angeles...