Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a piece of paper awaiting his signature brought President Hoover memories. The paper was an order promoting Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler, U. S. Marine Corps, to the rank of Major-General. The President's memories were of the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, when he, then a young mining engineer, had discussed the defense of Tientsin with Smedley Darlington Butler, then an enthusiastic Second Lieutenant of Marines just turned 19. President Hoover signed the order...
...Butler has fought in nine countries, won many medals. Grizzled Marine campaigners recite many a yarn of his personal bravery. Philadelphia politicians recall with horror the year (1924-25) when, as Director of Public Safety, he endeavored to "mop up" his home town, where he was raised, like Herbert Hoover, in a Quaker family...
With these words and a few more President Hoover last week started the Federal Farm Board off on its long task of jacking husbandry up out of its economic bog. The President met the Board for an hour in the Cabinet Room. One place on the Board remained vacant: A member to represent Wheat, whom President Hoover had not yet been able to find. Two last-minute Board appointees: William Frank Schilling of Northfield, Minn, to represent Dairy Interests; Charles S. Wilson of Hall, N. Y. to represent truck-gardeners...
...Board's first problem was wheat. Here Nature had already started helping the Hoover administration. Last week the Department of Agriculture announced crop estimates. Forecast was a wheat harvest of 834,000,000 bushels (1928: 902,000,000 bu.; 1927: 878,000,000 bu.). Great had been the crop shrinkage since the spring estimates. Reason: Hot winds, drought, severe insect damage. Bad weather conditions in Canada and improved world demand brightened the outlook. The Chicago wheat pit reflected these conditions. Prices, on the rise for the last month, went higher. July deliveries touched $1.29 per bushel, a 35 cent advance...
...protests against its high rates were filed with the U. S. State Department by the diplomatic representatives of 25 countries. Collectively, politely, the protests told the U. S. that increased tariff schedules might prove injurious to that expansion of U. S. foreign trade so anxiously desired by President Hoover...