Word: hooverness
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...Democrat. He was Woodrow Wilson's chairman of the omnipotent War Industries Board, financed a host of Senatorial campaigns during the lean Republican years, was the heaviest single contributor to the Democratic cause in 1932. Yet Mr. Baruch has been no closer to Roosevelt II than to Hoover, Coolidge and Harding, to all of whom he furnished disinterested personal counsel and advice. But inevitably his words were taken as those of a Democrat when last week he said such things as these...
Giving postage prominence to such forgotten Democrats as Buchanan and Tyler smacks of party favoritism. The statement, in addition, that Hoover cannot be placed upon a stamp because he is alive seems more a political pretext than an error in fact. A note of optimism, however, creeps into the situation when one realizes that Mr. Farley has ruined his own chances of attaining stamp immortality. Yet if there is any significance in the Tribune's terse assertion that "Goddess of Freedom pictures will be discontinued," then all is lost...
...tons of flour from the U. S. Grain Corp. at a price of $1,685,000. Increased by the time it was funded in 1924 to $1,939,000 (including interest), Hungary's debt went into default with the War debts during the world crisis that provoked the Hoover Moratorium...
...Hoover Commission, leery of Federal control of the schools, vetoed Federal aid, even though it found some sections of the country too poor to afford a decent minimum of schooling. But Depression dramatized the "glaring inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile...
Signers of this report included three men who, as members of President Hoover's Commission, had voted the other way. Two of them were University of Chicago's Professor Charles Hubbard Judd and American Council on Education's George F. Zook. Most significant about-face was made by the third, the Rev. George Johnson, director of education of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. For the Committee had won Catholic support of Federal aid by recommending that States be allowed, if they chose, to give part of the Federal money to parochial schools...