Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Congress passed and President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone who had invented or discovered a new plant, provided it was asexually reproduced and not a tuber-propagated plant...
Besides lobbying through the Norris-LaGuardia Anti-Injunction Bill and preventing the confirmation of Judge John J. Parker, Herbert Hoover's nominee for the Supreme Court, McGrady enhanced his reputation by going in 1929 to Elizabethton, Tenn. to investigate for the A. F. of L. a strike of rayon workers, who were working 56 hours a week at 16? to 18? an hour. At 2 a. m. one morning a mob of truculent citizens routed him out of his hotel room and, with pistols in his ribs, drove him to Bristol, Va. By 8 a. m. he had hired...
...strategy was this. It was exactly the course followed by Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob when, in 1928 after Al Smith's drubbing, in spite of a huge Democratic deficit, he opened permanent quarters in Washington, hired Press Agent Charles Michelson and set to work preparing Herbert Hoover's downfall. But there are notable differences: 1) Republicans will have difficulty in finding another Michelson, 2) John Hamilton, unlike John Raskob, has not great personal wealth with which to play sugar-daddy to his Party. Last week John Hamilton talked blithely of spending two or three weeks raising money...
...Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was not begun until May 1933. To celebrate its opening, California scheduled a three-day fiesta which officially began with speeches at the bridgehead at the Oakland end. Rabbi A. A. Stern offered prayers for the 24 men who lost their lives during construction. Herbert Hoover told how the commission he appointed in 1929 first decided that the bridge was possible. Charles Henderson, an officer of Reconstruction Finance Corp., which financed the bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute to his staff. A steel-helmeted worker...
...Lestist. It is convenient to forget that at the beginning of the revolt the Spanish government was a liberal republic, which swung toward Communism only under the tragic necessity of self-defense. President Azana, who still refuses to flee the burning house, is no more Marxist than Herbert Hoover or Stanley Baldwin, and far less so than Leon Blum. It is significant that Largo Caballero, the radical, did not become prime minister until the civil war had been waged for several months...