Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...criminal nation, President Hoover's declarations to the contrary notwithstanding. What is needed is less laws making us all "criminals...
...promotion was one of merit, prime Hoover administrative policy. In the Department of Commerce, Mr. Young created the present system of enforcing air commerce rules, inspection, license of civil aircraft, licensing of pilots and mechanics. Last week, before his promotion, he announced new, strict rules for transport pilots. After Sept. 1 they must get their licenses renewed every six months. They will get renewals only by reproving their ability at trick takeoffs and landings. They must have flown at least ten hours solo in the types of planes for which they are licensed. And they must be able...
With President Hoover he went to an American Legion baseball game, hurried back to his desk after the first inning to search for a new Chief of Engineers. He sat in on a War Council meeting at which the Army's 1931 budget estimates were mulled over. He prodded General Charles Pelot Summerall along on the General Staff's investigation of Army costs, was disappointed to learn that the inquiry would not be completed before November. He dissolved five infantry battalions and transferred their 1,960 men into the growing Air Corps. He untangled a badly snarled wharf problem...
...jointly responsible for: the regular military establishment (124,000 officers and men at more than 100 posts); veterans, river & harbor improvements on inland navigation, the Panama Canal, the Philippines, Porto Rico, flood control, waterpower, forest reserves, oil conservation, the Smithsonian Institution, District of Columbia parks. In addition. President Hoover chose Mr. Good to be the administration's prime political adviser and agent. For twelve years (1909-21) an Iowa Congressman. Western Campaign Manager for Calvin Coolidge as well as Herbert Hoover, he has come in the Hoover Cabinet to represent the rural psychology on political matters far more than does...
Commission. The Tariff Commission was changed back into a bi-partisan organization responsible to Congress, contrary to President Hoover's wishes...