Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pullman upper berths, although enough intellectual candor has gone into his speeches to debunk the inflated bombast of U. S. politics, this onetime Presbyterian minister has made much less impression in this campaign than he did in 1932. That year, because many a thoughtful citizen refused to have either Hoover or Roosevelt, the Socialist Party, with Norman Thomas heading its ticket, rolled up 884.741 votes its best record since Eugene Debs nearly touched the million mark...
Volunteers. One feature of the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune'?, (circulation: 317,000) campaign to put Franklin Roosevelt out of the White House has been the exhaustive coverage it has given to the least utterance of Publisher Ogden Reid's cousin. Hoover Secretary of the Treasury Ogden Mills. Another has been the behavior of its distinguished columnists-the lamentation of Mark Sullivan, the oscillation of Dorothy Thompson, the tergiversation of Walter Lippmann. Another has been its feature, ''The Roosevelt Record," a disparaging comparison of Roosevelt promise and performance syndicated to 18 other papers...
...been said that Roosevelt's policy is laudable. It should be examined. He partially sponsored, and then wrecked, the London Economic Conference. The administration's silver policy brought China to the brink of disatser. "The good neighbor" policy, for which the President holds himself solely responsible, was instituted in Hoover's administration when marines were withdrawn and a general pacific attitude in regard to South and Central America prevailed. And it was not so long ago that he flailed the heads of many European governments, thus contributing, of course, to the general harmony. Lastly, and most pertinent today...
...President Hoover: "If an income-tax payer or any corporation kept books like this Administration, that is, if they showed similar morals in juggling their accounts, they would be put in jail...
Barred by a doorman from a Cincinnati reception given in her honor by the Girl Scouts of America, Mrs. Herbert Hoover was rescued by an official, re-elected their president...