Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...statement from President Hoover as to where he stands on the tariff...
Promptly President Hoover denied that he had made any such request to the Tariff Commission. Observers began to realize that the Tariff fight was passing into its bitterest stage...
...resignation of Chairman George Woodward Wickersham of the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission because of his Prohibition letter...
...embarrass Bishop Cannon: In 1917 (just before the Food Administration Law went into effect) Bishop Cannon bought 650 barrels of flour in the name of Blackstone College for girls, a Virginia Methodist College of which he was president. The purchase was brought to the attention of Food Administrator Herbert Hoover who referred the matter to Roland William Boyden, Chief Food Administration enforcement officer...
...Hoover approved the Boyden report which read: "The man [Bishop Cannon] is clearly a hoarder . . . because he held flour in a quantity in excess of his reasonable requirements. . . . Even if we assume that he really bought the flour for the benefit of the college, he is still a hoarder, for he held enough for three years' supply. ... He is, by so doing, depriving some portion of the community of its fair share of a scarce food product. The better educated a man is the more clearly he ought to see this moral principle...