Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Early in the Depression, an apple-growers' association conceived the idea of selling apples on consignment to unemployed workers. How did President Hoover describe this development...
...Which president analyzed his predecessor: "Hoover had the misfortune to hold office at the wrong time...
...Babe Ruth say he deserved a higher salary than President Hoover...
...When President Hoover begged the American Legion's 1932 convention not to insist on early payment of veterans' bonuses, what chant greeted his please...
...great star is flawless, but in the end Creamer runs out of intimates confiding that Ruth really was the great man he was supposed to be. Ruth's life was colorful, but sportswriters blew it out of proportion. When he quipped that he deserved more money than Hoover in 1930 because he "had a better year than Hoover did" or when he addressed the president personally as "prezz" or when he failed to take his borderhouse-reach while sitting at the table of New York's swankiest, it made good copy. Ruth was a big man back-dropped by stiffs...