Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...America Act, 1867, apportions governing authority between the Federal and Provincial Governments. During Depression, Canada was also given a New Deal, hastily fabricated in 1934-35 by Canada's Conservative Prime Minister Richard Bedford Bennett in a last-minute attempt to escape the tag of "Canada's Hoover," stand forth as "Canada's Roosevelt." This attempt failed. Prime Minister Bennett thereupon ignored his own New Deal legislation, lost last October's elections and gave way to Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King...
...last week compiled for Forum & Century a list of U. S. kudos champions and a list of outstanding U. S. citizens as yet unhonored. Then he invited readers to draw their own conclusions. Champions were Nicholas Murray Butler (34), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27), the New York Times's speechmaker, John Huston Finley (27). Dorothy Dix is an honorary Doctor of Letters and Marion Sayle Taylor (the "Voice of Experience") an honorary Doctor of Laws...
...possible answers are given. You are to select the best answer and put its number on the line at the right of the number of the question on the answer sheet. Example: 0. The President of the U. S. is (1 Coolidge, 2 Roosevelt, 3 Morgan, 4 Garner, 5 Hoover). Roosevelt is the correct answer. Since the number of this question is 0, the number 2-standing for Roosevelt-has been placed at the right of 0 on the answer sheet...
...Gangsters Alvin Karpis and Harry Campbell were captured by federal agents under the personal direction of Department of Justice head (1 Grover Whalen, 2 William Burns, 3 Ellis Parker, 4 Pelham D. Glassford, 5 J. Edgar Hoover...
...chief issue stressed by former President Herbert Hoover in his pre-convention speeches was (1 President Roosevelt's foreign policy, 2 the Tennessee Valley Authority 3 individualism versus the New Deal, 4 the failure of the Government to reduce tariffs, 5 the nomination of Frank Knox...