Word: hooverness
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...this booming excitement last week only one gloomy note was heard. That was croaked by Herbert Clark Hoover in Manhattan for a convention of eminent engineers. Before his fellow engineers...
...source has made all the Opera Hats and Silk Hats for every President of the United States for the past 8 Presidents-- Roosevelt Wilson Hoover Taft Coolidge Roosevelt Harding McKinley...
...Congress passed and President Hoover signed a bill enlarging the class of eligible patentees to include anyone who had invented or discovered a new plant, provided it was asexually reproduced and not a tuber-propagated plant...
...strategy was this. It was exactly the course followed by Democratic Chairman John J. Raskob when, in 1928 after Al Smith's drubbing, in spite of a huge Democratic deficit, he opened permanent quarters in Washington, hired Press Agent Charles Michelson and set to work preparing Herbert Hoover's downfall. But there are notable differences: 1) Republicans will have difficulty in finding another Michelson, 2) John Hamilton, unlike John Raskob, has not great personal wealth with which to play sugar-daddy to his Party. Last week John Hamilton talked blithely of spending two or three weeks raising money...
...Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was not begun until May 1933. To celebrate its opening, California scheduled a three-day fiesta which officially began with speeches at the bridgehead at the Oakland end. Rabbi A. A. Stern offered prayers for the 24 men who lost their lives during construction. Herbert Hoover told how the commission he appointed in 1929 first decided that the bridge was possible. Charles Henderson, an officer of Reconstruction Finance Corp., which financed the bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute to his staff. A steel-helmeted worker...