Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...With President Hoover I believe that Prohibition is an experiment noble in purpose, and that it was enacted for the protection of the American home, and with him I wish it to succeed...
Hyde. U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Arthur M. Hyde addressed the teachers, expounded the Hoover interpretation of such shopworn terms as Equalization Fee, Debenture Plan, Federal Farm Board, Cooperatives. He begged his hearers "to aid in . . . answering the . . . compelling cry: 'I am an American farmer...
...conducted their 32nd International conference. As is usual with meetings of this kind, the young people listened to speeches and passed resolutions prepared by adult leaders. They resolved: 1) to uphold the Kellogg-Briand peace treaty; 2) to uphold Prohibition. These resolutions were sent as an answer to President Hoover's message of "cordial greetings . . . deep appreciation." In part they said: "[The delegates] send you the assurance of their affectionate regard and pledge their loyalty in the following words...
...lumberman, was merely propagandizing for his cause. Afterward he became secretary of the famed "Flying Squadron," a Prohibition-boosting committee which in 1914-15 visited and pleaded in each & every state. He enjoys a close Dry friendship with Chain Storeman James Cash Penney, friend of Prohibition and of President Hoover, publisher of the Christian Herald, interdenominational weekly of which Dr. Poling is editor-in-chief...
Abraham Goldberg of the Bronx, N. Y., added that the blame was not only Yevseksia's since if the Soviet Government did not approve of the persecution nobody would dare persecute. A resolution of ''protest and condemnation" was sent to President Hoover and Senator Borah of the Foreign Relations committee...