Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor Landon is much closer to the nomination than Herbart Hoover was at this same time in 1928. It's all over but calling the roll, in my opinion." Thus did a prominent Republican politician of Massachusetts sum, up the pre-convention situation, as Grand Old Partizans of New England prepare to entrain for the Cleveland Convention, which opens June...
...chief talking point of conservatives in their attacks on the extreme measures of the New Deal has always been that the Washington government was trying to perform duties that really belonged to the states. Even Mr. Hoover did not dare come out against minimum-wage and maximum hour laws, but merely said that the Constitution reserved such powers to the states. Mr. Hoover may have been narrow-minded and behind the times, but he was not inhuman, and to many people his argument had a great deal of logic. In the face of this decision such a clear-cut alternative...
Reader Collier's information is interesting, even if not entirely accurate. Most George Washington classmates (1916) re-call J. Edgar Hoover's nickname as "Speedy," "Speed" or "Spee." Another District of Columbia and George Washington University boy who made good is U. S. Ambassador to China Nelson Trusler Johnson...
That portrait of an irresponsible critic remained accurate throughout the Coolidge and Hoover regimes. Even as late as 1932 Senator Harrison was still being spurred to flights of irony by such items as a Government pamphlet which he called "The Love Life of a Bullfrog." But the portrait bears no recognizable likeness to the Pat Harrison...
...delegates-at-large to the Republican Convention. In addition to him, the official slate of Landon delegates-at-large included Mrs. Edna B. Conklin; President Edward D. Duffield of Prudential Insurance Co., chairman of Princeton's board of trustees; and Walter Evans Edge, onetime (1919-29) Senator, Herbert Hoover's Ambassador to France. Into the fight at the last minute had jumped onetime Congressman Franklin W. Fort, who emerged from political retirement to offer himself as a substitute for Governor Hoffman on the Landon slate. Mr. Fort's sole issue: the Governor's handling...