Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trend of progressivism, far from being an invention of the New Deal, was merely brought further by Roosevelt after a start under the Hoover administration. The latter was handicapped by a hostile Congress and public, but the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the older Federal Farm Board were the seeds from which many of the more worthy New Deal measures sprouted. Governor Landon has given no indication that he desires to abandon the re-constructive measures of Roosevelt. His views on social security, farm aid, conservation of resources, and relief, all bear the stamp of a man devoted to the needs...
Died. Louis T. McFadden, 60, longtime (1915-35) Republican Representative from Pennsylvania who twice moved to impeach President Hoover for declaring the 1932 War debt moratorium; of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan...
...symposium were Albert Sprague Coolidge '15, lecturer on chemistry, and candidate for the Senate on the Socialist ticket; George Blake, secretary of the New England division of the Communist Party; David Stock, a Democratic New York lawyer and former special counsel to the Finance Committee of the Senate during Hoover's regime; and Henry Parkman '15, a member of the Massachusetts Senate who presented the Republican point of view...
...unconstitutional, so is the RFC set up under Hoover," stated Stock, the Democratic speaker. "The Hoover policy of giving aid only at the top to large banks and corporations is just what Republican philosophy of today stands for," he continued...
...year-old Boston lawyer who married a Lowell. There are two other trustees and a five-man advisory board, heavily Harvard, predominantly Bostonian. Leading the board's list is Charles Francis Adams, great-great-great-grandson of the second President of the U. S.. Herbert Hoover's Secretary of the Navy and reputedly the richest member of his ancient family. Another is Roger Amory. the philosophical president of Consolidated Investment Trust. He lists his hobbies as books, walks and lying in the sun. wrote for his 25th Harvard Class (1910) Book: "I believe in the consanguinity...