Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Through the executive offices last week resounded a great beating and pounding of hammers. President Hoover was not disturbed. He knew it was only some workmen enlarging his office basement. What bothered him more was another noise- the clanking and grating of legislative machinery at the capitol, out of gear and threatening to go out of control...
...House had brought forth its tariff bill and to the Hoover eye it did not resemble the article he had hoped for (see p. 10). To find out what was wrong with it, to gauge its potential effect upon Business and the Cost of Living, the President set expert analysts to work. His own first impression of the duties on shingles, lumber, cement and sugar was not favorable but he withheld formal opinion until he was better fortified with facts. Trouble aplenty was in the Senate where the Republicans were quarreling among themselves, to the jeopardy of the Administration...
...Congress seemed so certainly seated for all summer that President Hoover made known he would be taking no summer vacation...
...Geneva Arms Conference, President Hoover said: "I am greatly gratified at the promising character of the results...
...Abraham Lincoln, President Hoover has special reverence. Lincoln's oldtime cabinet room in the southeast corner of the second floor of the White House, he has changed from a guest chamber to a study. From the attic has been brought a dusty old chair which the President believes originally stood there...