Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gerold C. Wichmann, that "U. S. War Veterans should cordially dislike President Franklin D. Roosevelt," then you are not giving your readers a true reflection of a cross-section of how most of the service men of the World War really feel toward the one man who prevented the Hoover Revolution-who makes it possible, today, for you to operate without having a brick or two thrown through your plate-glass windows by hungry and desperate men-who has removed the galling harness of the "noble experiment" from the body politic of an exasperated people -whose keen vision and unbending...
...Gerold C. Wichmann, in TIME, quotes Legion National Commander Johnson as follows: "The Bonus is not an issue." He adds that the two vetoes are. Why stop at two? We have the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover vetoes...
Blackest page of all came with Hoover's eviction of the Bonus Marchers, wives and children, by gas and bayonet. Contrast that with the friendly reception accorded by Roosevelt and you will see some reason for the vet's leaning toward Democracy...
...Telephoned Herbert Hoover at Stanford University and got his promise to take the stump...
...follows: Landon, 16,056; Roosevelt, 7,645; Lemke, 754. Because ballots were few, came from no metropolitan areas, and because three of the four States are normally Republican, political observers uniformly discounted Landon's 2-to-1 lead. First returns of the Digest's 1932 poll showed Hoover ahead...