Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ardent advocate of restrictive immigration, he led the fight for the 1924 law and again, this year, secured the adoption of National Origins over the objection of President Hoover...
Last week unexpected aid came to the Hoover industrial program from a bull outside the herd. Irving T. Bush,* head of Brooklyn's mammoth Bush Terminal, announced the completion of three years of negotiations in the formation of Bush Service, Inc., U. S. A. The new company combines the facilities of the Bush Terminal with those of Lassen & Co., a Swiss holding company that controls 54 distributing agencies throughout Europe. Fifty one percent of the stock of the new company is held by Bush Terminal. Inc. For the smaller exporter Bush Service Corp. will do, roughly, what is done...
...Universal Bible Sunday," under the auspices of the American Bible Society, with the endorsement of President Hoover...
...following article on "President Hoover and Prohibition" was written for the Harvard Crimson by Thomas Nixon Carver, David A. Wells Professor of political economy...
Nothing which anyone could say in favor of enforcing the prohibitory law could possibly please the fanatical wets. Reasonable people, wets and drys alike, must approve some parts of President Hoover's message which refer to that subject. Wets cannot honestly deny his first statement, namely that the first duty of the President under his oath of office is to secure the enforcement of the laws, nor his second, namely that the enforcement of the laws enacted to give effect to the eighteenth amendment is far from satisfactory. Beyond that there may be honest differences of opinion between wets...