Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Once Secretary of Commerce Hoover met quarterly with editors of trade papers to answer their questions. Last week. President Hoover turned on the editors, asked instead of answering questions, was assured that U. S. business is prosperous and likely to continue...
...Persuaded by President Hoover, Thomas Hildt, partner in an old Baltimore banking house (Alex Brown & Sons), consented to become financial adviser of the Federal Farm Board. His task: organizing a banking division to administer the $500,000,000 farm loan fund. His remuneration: nothing (by request...
...Officers of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, busy in an international conference at Indianapolis did not open their mail for three days. When they did, they were excited. There was a letter from President Hoover, in which he regretted too great reliance on the Prohibition law to enforce abstinence, urged extended education in the moral, physical, economic benefits of temperance...
...ceremonies were conducted in the court room of the new Langdell Hall. President Lowell opened the exercises with a brief welcome, and after pointing out the need for trained lawyers in our present day civilization, called on Roscoe Pound Dean of the Law School and a member of President Hoover's Law Enforcement Commission...
President Hoover's response was a succinct telegram: "Glad to join in congratulating Mr. Garvan and the American Chemical Society on the Priestley Medal award...