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First Trouble. Early in 1933, while Herbert Hoover was still in office but while New Deal measures were beginning to be discussed, George Sloan issued a statement opposing such a cotton processing tax as AAA later imposed. He declared : "The extensive price increases necessitated by the tax will decrease the consumption of cotton and cause widespread displacement of workers in the cotton textile industry." By autumn the price of cotton had jumped from 6¢ to 92 ½ç per Ib. and on top of that was a 4.2¢ processing tax. Labor was costing the industry 69% more per hour...
...When Herbert Hoover, who went home only once in four years, was President, his aids worried much because he could not present himself in the role of a human being. They had to think up many ways of dramatizing the milk of human kindness that flowed in his heart. At great pains they brought Bryan Untiedt, Colorado boy who the Press headlined as having saved 16 children marooned in a snowbound school bus, to Washington to play a mouth organ for the Hoovers. No such dramatization is required by Franklin Roosevelt, but the same machinery still turns. Twelve-year...
...save, acquire and keep property, he could not stir even a flutter of interest. But last week when six eminent gentlemen propounded these propositions they made front-page news. Finally it seemed as if the New Deal were to meet something more potent than the disorganized opposition of Herbert Hoover's well-beaten henchmen...
...speech. He had obtained records of radio speeches by the Louisiana Senator, the President, the editor of Today, many another New Dealer, to add to a linguistic library which now includes 2,500 disks recording the speech of Maine farmers, Southern mountaineers, Barnard girls, Thomas A. Edison, Herbert Hoover, Al Smith and Calvin Coolidge ("perfect Connecticut Valley...
Married? Mildred Hall, 29, secretary to Mrs. Herbert Hoover; and Thomas Allen Campbell. 33, Los Angeles school teacher, son of onetime Governor of Arizona Thomas Edward Campbell; in Palo Alto...