Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Stirring the patronage kettle, - Mr. Hoover was beset by many a troublous problem. Some he met, others he deferred...
Southern interest was further excited by reports that President Hoover was going to appoint, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, the Democrat who held that post under President Wilson-Cato Sells of Texas. Mr. Sells now represents that considerable body of Democrats who deserted their party last year to support Herbert Hoover...
Resignations. Alive to the need for reorganizing the Government, President Hoover touched the centre of resistance to this long-delayed program when he called last week for the resignations of all executive officeholders from sub-Cabinet members down to the unchanging, merit-system Civil Service. Obscure bureau chiefs, chief clerks, directors of their deputies, holders of jobs which are virtually permanent so long as their party stays in power, these underlings have exercised great influence over Cabinet officers in inducing them to block organization plans. But a bureaucrat ceases to be a bureaucrat once his resignation is in the President...
Retentions. President Hoover last week retained in office: Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, retired director of the U. S. Veterans Bureau; Brig. Gen. Herbert M. Lord, retired Director of the Budget; Rear Admiral William Adger Moffett, since 1921 Chief of the Bureau of Naval Aeronautics...
...after the death of Henry Cabot Lodge (1924) he became the G.O.P.'s busy Senate housekeeper. Now that he is Vice President, with high official rank and no official cares except to listen to the Senate when it is sitting and to hope for the health of President Hoover, things are different. Last week he slipped off to Miami Beach to "rest" and really have fun, his first real spree in years...