Word: hoovers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...read in TIME some time (and several TIMES) ago, that Allan Hoover would not graduate this year because he was away from his studies on his father's South American good-will tour? Yet notice the picture and legend which I clip from the Boston Herald of June 30. Explain please...
...long wait their taxi-driver grew impatient, suspected his four fares of stealing away to escape the metre charge, went in and told a guard they were "dead beats." Emerging after two hours, the four Reparation Commissioners crossed the street to the White House to lunch with President Hoover. About the table were gathered officials from the State and Treasury Departments. Questions were asked and answered. The advisability of having a U. S. official join the International Bank of Settlements, set up under the Young Plan, was advanced and discussed. Emerging from the White House, the Messrs. Young and Morgan...
...most liberal cigar-passers in Pacific politics. His face is longish and inclined to solemnity. Grave eyes look out from behind horn-rimmed glasses. A friendly man, he nevertheless practices a certain cautious reserve, a certain restraint of language. When informed of his appointment by President Hoover, he drew himself up seriously before his friends and announced: "I will endeavor to serve Hawaii in a manner befitting the responsibility which has been placed...
...last week Campbell Bascom Slemp, Virginia Republican, onetime Coolidge Secretary, strolled into the White House, conferred with President Hoover, strolled out again. Smiling wisely at expectant newsgatherers, he drove off to the Union Station, took a train for Richmond. That night a strange political alliance was born, a culmination of Virginia's "new era of humanity" (TIME, July...
...Slemp's visit to the White House bore fruit when President Hoover telegraphed the Richmond convention that its action "added proof of the purpose of the people of your great State to rise and remain above the level of single party control in local government," and that it would "prove an inspiration to other States throughout the South to do likewise...