Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...same time President Hoover appointed a staunch lowan, Col. Harry L. Gilchrist, 59, to be Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, also with the rank of Major General. He has been an Army medico since the Spanish War, active student of X-ray leprosy treatments and de- gassing processes...
...rising with threat of flood. In lowlands the Missouri, streaming from the Rocky Mountain watersheds across Montana and draining North Dakota's Little Missouri, Knife and Heart rivers, had spread from its 500-ft. channel over a 6-mi. runway. The cities were in danger. Officials telegraphed President Hoover, pleading that Army bombers be sent to break the ice jam by dropping explosives...
Public hearings brought into this room 1,200 witnesses in 45 days who gave 11,000 printed pages of evidence on changing the 1922 Tariff Act. Now, preparatory to the special session of Congress, the majority members of this committee were writing an administration bill which would fulfill the Hoover campaign promises. The President wanted tariff revision limited to agricultural products and a few special but unnamed commodities. These G. O. P. committeemen were inclined to give him what he wanted. But outside the locked door, potent U. S. manufacturers ululated demands that all duty rates be promptly and emphatically...
Guns and bullets-that was what President Chiang Kai-shek asked of President Herbert Hoover, last week, and he asked British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, too, for good measure. Since Chinese newspapers have told that "the Quaker in the White House" recently allowed 10,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition to be sold to Mexico (TIME, March 18), the request of President Chiang was perhaps not illogical. He, like President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico, is engaged in putting down a revolution, and why should not Washington and London help? In so far as the U. S. State...
...corporations, has at least long known that venerable HALEY FISKE was president of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Last month, however, Mr. Fiske died (TIME, March 11). Now the U. S. citizen, asked to name Metropolitan's chief, must remember that it is FREDERICK ECKER who heads what President Hoover once termed "the greatest single institution devoted to public welfare." The Metropolitan has in force some $16,000,000,000 of insurance from some 40,000,000 policies; its income is approximately $2,000,000 a day. In the appointment of Mr. Ecker to its presidency, the Metropolitan selected...