Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Great Hoover won his fight and sent...
Trouble enough has the Japanese post given President Hoover. Most expensive of diplomatic jobs (it is estimated to require $50,000 per year more than the ambassadorial salary of $17,000) it was left vacant a year ago by the resignation of Charles MacVeagh. President Hoover offered it to both Hubert Work and Roy Owen West, who both declined. The London parley necessitated an appointment, even temporary, of a man capable of conducting the intricate behind scenes negotiations incident to any international conference. A new complication had arisen with Japan's request for a change in its cruiser...
...close personal friend of President Hoover...
...chief of President Hoover's National Business Committee of 72 to restore industrial equilibrium (TIME...
...Senate, northwestern Senators swung to the support of the Federal Farm Board, flayed the private commission men as "gamblers." A rush of denials of trouble flowed from Farm Board Chairman Alexander Legge, Mr. Barnes, Chicago and Minneapolis grain men. From the White House came a broad hint that President Hoover would support his farm board chairman sooner than his business committee chairman in this controversy...