Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...achieve that 9% farm protection by increasing farm rates, reducing industrial rates, equalizing protection in the manner promised by President Hoover, was the purpose of the Borah Bloc. With characteristic caution Senator Borah himself kept out of the Progressive-Democratic coalition, which he had inspired, though he gave it his benediction, promised future assistance...
...Nebraska's Senator Norris and Democratic-Leader Robinson the bloc constituted a powerful combination of votes virtually the same as had for so long tormented President Hoover with the Export Debenture Plan in the Farm Bill. It took its name from the support it gave last week to a Borah resolution to instruct the Finance Committee to confine tariff revision to the farm schedule. Last week it held informal meetings, laid plans, apportioned among its membership the special study of different schedules for technical contests on the Senate bloc, prepared to scatter through the land to stump against...
...limited tariff coalition might well have had the support of President Hoover were it not for two miscellaneous items added to their tariff baggage. One was the Debenture Plan which, forced out of the Farm Bill, Senator Norris and his followers were now determined to tack on the Tariff Bill. The other was the proposal of Virginia's Senator Glass to impose a $5 tax on every $100 share of stock purchased for speculation. The test for "speculation" was to be whether the stock was held for less than two months...
...Strawbridge acknowledged her debt for the idea to Mrs. Edward Beale McLean, wife of the publisher of the Washington Post, who served no liquor at her Easter party to set a law observance fashion and please President Hoover. Mrs. Strawbridge wrote to ladies of Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago, New York. She inquired "whether it would be possible to constitute a committee of women of your own standing in the social world, who would interest themselves in creating sentiment for observance of the Prohibition laws within their own circles. My eventual desire," said she, "is to form a national committee composed...
...forth last week across the Detroit River as the U. S. continued its warlike efforts to check the flow of liquor smuggled in from Canada. Many a bitter word crackled back and forth across the U. S. Senate where Wets and Drys alike flayed the indefiniteness of the Hoover Prohibition policy...