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...great auditorium of the 817,500,000 palace which Herbert Hoover built for his Department of Commerce was jammed to the doors one day last week. Elbow to elbow sat 2,000 businessmen eager to say their say about whether NRA should permit or forbid price fixing and price control. On the platform presiding over the meeting were Samuel Clay Williams, Chairman of NIRB; Arthur Dare Whiteside and Sidney Hillman, both NIRB members, and their associates...
Bookkeeping. One conservative sign observers noted in this year's budget message-a tendency to treat figures more as they were treated under Coolidge and Hoover. The budget for fiscal 1936 calls for expenditures of $1,622,000,000 for the Government's running expenses, an increase of nearly 50% over fiscal 1934. One part of this increase is caused by the restoration of Government pay cuts, by vastly more Government employment under the New Deal, by larger appropriations for the Navy. Another part is caused by more realistic bookkeeping. Example: $200,000,000 is added...
...hapless Herbert Clark Hoover of Ottawa is Richard Bedford Bennett, a good man, rich, pious, well-meaning, conservative and Premier. Before next autumn at the latest he must fight a Canadian election, and everyone has been saying he must lose for the same reason that Mr. Hoover inevitably lost: the people are sore. Last week Mr. Bennett decided that he would not accept defeat without trying the last refuge of statesmanship, demagoguery. Overnight the leader of Canada's Conservative Party turned such a complete somersault that the Conservative Montreal Gazette said he had "done violence to every Conservative principle...
Passing through Omaha on his way East, Citizen Herbert Hoover stopped off for lunch in the railway station, admitted he had gained three pounds since leaving the White House. Next day in Chicago he told newshawks: "A purely personal business trip. ... I am always sorry for the Press because I can give them no news...
...Douglas, who was awarded an honorary LL.D. here in 1933 "for saving the national credit by wise and just economy" has won his reputation through government service. When he served in Congress from 1927 to 1933, he criticized the Hoover Administration for failing to take sufficiently decisive action to achieve recovery. At that time, he was generally regarded as a liberal...