Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japan, officials were reticent but beaming. So good a neighbor as President Roosevelt, they opined, is unlikely to interfere with the aspirations of Japan in China, whereas under President Hoover there was inaugurated the "Stimson Doctrine" which even now persists among the Great Powers and has blocked Japan from obtaining recognition for her puppet empire Manchukuo. Because they still hate Hoover & Stimson, Japanese particularly like Roosevelt & Hull...
...Landon could console himself last week with the thought that, though his electoral total touched a near-record low, he had at least topped Herbert Hoover's 15,000,000 popular votes of 1932. No such solace was available to the nation's third party candidates and their backers, whose wretched performances at the polls made the Republican fiasco seem a comparative triumph...
...radio from Paris, in celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty (see p. 27). Said the President, repeating Grover Cleveland's pledge in dedicating the statue: "We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected." Said Herbert Hoover later in Denver: "Two days ago [Mr. Roosevelt] rededicated the Statue of Liberty in New York. She has been the Forgotten Woman...
...Oriente was held at her pier for ten hours by a strike of 40 seamen and stewards demanding overtime pay. . . . On the Great Lakes, the American Radio Telegraphists Association struck for better labor conditions on four freight lines. ... In San Francisco, crew troubles tied up the President Hoover, San Anselmo, Maui and Willhilo. ... In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a crew strike held the freighter West Mahwah in port...
Week after the Girl Scouts of America re-elected President Mrs. Lou Henry Hoover, Boys' Club Federation of America elected Herbert Hoover Board Chairman...