Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week the Senate Judiciary Committee set aside the McKellar complaint against President Hoover's failure to submit Mr. Mellon's nomination to the Senate, as mere legal piffling. Some 200 precedents were available to show that appointments did not require reconfirmation...
...Convened, heard President Hoover's message, received 309 bills, postponed legislative debate a week. ¶ Confirmed Charles Gates Dawes as Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, Joseph M. Dixon as Assistant Secretary of the Interior, Charles James Rhoads as Commissioner of Indian Affairs...
...Congress met last week, Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas, his face stamped with anxiety, visited the White House. To President Hoover he stated his problem: Kansas granaries bulged with 40,000,000 bushels of 1928 surplus wheat held for export. It hung over the incoming crop, an imminent incubus. It could not be moved to seaboard with a transportation loss to the producers of 8? per bushel-a freight rate advantage enjoyed by Canada and Argentina on the wheat for the world market. Said Senator Capper: "This wheat must be moved in the next three months, as July wheat will...
...export debenture plan. They dutifully assembled all possible arguments, which President Hoover then consolidated in a ten-point broadside against the plan. In a public letter to Chairman McNary of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, he contended that export debentures would: 1) Be a $200,000,000 per year "direct subsidy"; 2) be a "gigantic gift" to speculators "without a cent return to the farmer"; 3) cause overproduction; 4) retard diversification; 5) be resorted to by the Federal Farm Board because "the tendency of all boards is to use the whole of their authority"; 6) produce "manipulation" in the export...
...name business." ¶ Publisher-Senator Arthur Capper of Kansas (Topeka Daily Capital) pleaded for the maintenance of strong editorial pages. Editorials, he declared, exert a potent influence upon the governmental functions of the nation. ¶ After three days of speechmaking and conferring, and a visit to President and Mrs. Hoover at the White House, the editors trooped to Manhattan for two meetings this week more important than their...