Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about one of America's all-time greats: Herbert Clark Hoover...
...fall down the stairs; in Parsons, Kans. A onetime Bull Mooser, Reed was the trumpeting publisher of the Parsons Sun, an ardent dry and a crotchety independent. The G.O.P. denied him renomination for governor in 1930. In retaliation he backed a Democrat in the gubernatorial election, failed to support Hoover in 1932, acidly advised Fellow Kansan Alf Landon in 1936 to stay off the radio as much as possible. A rock-ribbed, prewar isolationist, he voted for the European Recovery Program, advocated the 48-hour-week and the open shop, never ceased harrying the New and Fair Deals with insistent...
Arthur Maass, assistant professor of Government, yesterday afternoon urged the Law School Citizens Committee on the Hoover Committee Report "to expose the lobbies which are opposing the Hoover proposals." He was speaking at the Langdell Hall Courtroom at a meeting sponsored by the Committee and the Law School Record...
Maass, who was a member of the Hoover Commission's task force on natural resources, also said that one of the most important ideas to come from the Commission has been the establishment of "smaller editions of the Hoover Commission in the states...
...second time since he left the White House in 1933, Herbert Hoover last week took on a private business job.* He became a member of the new board of directors of Conrad Hilton's newly purchased Waldorf-Astoria Hotel (TIME, Oct. 17). Hoover, who will receive $30 per board meeting, had an added reason to take the Waldorf job. He lives there...