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Herbert Hoover would be proud of George. The only big resistance to these people and their wars, is a very significant number of "ordinary" Americans. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Presidential Race Dominated by Lefties Jun 2, 2008
In fact, some historians claim seven presidents, or 16% of all U.S. presidents, have been left-handed including James Garfield, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Herbert Hoover (disputed), and Ronald Reagan, who wrote with his right hand as an adult but some reports claim he was a natural lefty as a child who may have been pressured to switch. 1. (ABC News)
TERRY SCAMBRAY: A closer look at history of assassinations May 31, 2008
In 1933, an anarchist took an errant shot at Franklin D. Roosevelt, but this delusional man wanted to assassinate either Herbert Hoover or FDR. In 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme approached President Ford with a gun, saying that she wanted to talk to him. Arthur Bremer wanted to shoot President Richard Nixon, but settled for shooting and paralyzing right-wing Independent Party candidate, George Wallace. (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
Rove, White House Dispute McClellan Book Tales May 29, 2008
Andrew Johnson, James Buchanan, Herbert Hoover and Warren Harding are strongly competing with Bush, among the likely bottom five presidents so far. Posted by: Independent | May 28, 2008 9:52 PM. (Yahoo News -- Bush Administration)
Beck honored by classmates May 25, 2008
Cathy Dickinson's fifth-grade class, of which Haylee was a student, raised funds for the monument now located outside of Herbert Hoover Elementary School. Steve Stowe donated a stone with the words "In memory of Haylee Ann Beck" and the dates of her young life from Feb. 3, 1997, to March 2, 2008, engraved on it. (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, IA)
When the Left Was Right May 24, 2008
Bill Williams, who left Atlantic for the U.S. Naval Academy (and remained proud of the fact) and later rehabilitated those defenderless conservative presidents John Quincy Adams and Herbert Hoover, fit perfectly within the American populist tradition of the University of Wisconsin. But in 1968, Williams left Madison for Oregon State to, in Buhle s words, teach undergraduates, live by the ocean, and live in a diversified community of ordinary Americans. (The American Conservative)
What a woman wants May 23, 2008
Americans were happy and content with the prosperity delivered to them by the free market in the Roaring Twenties, so in that decade they elected as president three Republicans in a row - Warren Harding in 1920, Calvin Coolidge in 1924, and Herbert Hoover in 1928. However, following the stock market crash of 1929 and the subsequent Great Depression, the seeming salvation of the country from both the economic calamity and the threats of the fascist Axis ushered in one of the longest periods of... (Asia Times Online)
Robert Rubin's poisoned chalice May 21, 2008
In the 1930 mid-term elections, the Democrats gained control of Congress, and in 1932 Democratic candidate Franklin D Roosevelt was easily elected president over Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover, carrying over 40 states. The Democrats finally gained control of both Congress and the Executive Branch after more than a decade of Republican rule. (Asia Times Online)
L-B junior named 'Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student' May 20, 2008
Sioux City Journal: L-B junior named 'Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student ... L-B junior named 'Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student ... WEST BRANCH, Iowa -- Michael Beavers Jr., a junior at Lawton-Bronson Junior-Senior High School, has been named a Herbert Hoover Uncommon Student for organizing a community effort to make a Sergeant Bluff home more accessible for two brothers to operatie their wheel chairs. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Glad You Asked: I know it takes a lefty to notice other lefties and I wonder how many people know Obama and McCain are both left-handed. My question to you is how many presidents and presidential candidates have been left handed? May 20, 2008
Some lists include Herbert Hoover, but he s omitted from others created by left-handed advocates, perhaps because they want no part of someone on whose watch the Great Depression began. Rotstein points out Ronald Reagan wrote with his right hand, but was dissuaded from his natural tendencies by stern schoolmasters, and slapped Angie Dickinson with his left hand in the 1964 film The Killers, his final film before focusing on politics. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
75 YEARS OF TVA May 18, 2008
The TVA-concept structure twice passed Congress and twice was vetoed - first by Calvin Coolidge and then by Herbert Hoover, both Republicans. Then came the Great Depression after the 1929 stock market crash, and then came Roosevelt's election. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Borah reference stirs debate May 18, 2008
Sowards described Borah as something of an early 20th-century version of McCain for a maverick streak that included not endorsing Herbert Hoover, a fellow Republican, for president in 1932. In the process, Borah transcended provincial Idaho politics during his six U.S. Senate terms. (Pocatello Idaho State Journal, ID)
Benjamin Bratt's lessons for success May 16, 2008
-- In the latest issue of Out magazine, Gregory Davidson found the following correction: "In the article 'Washington's Gay War' by Charles Kaiser a caption misidentified J. Edgar Hoover as Herbert Hoover. Out regrets the error." (Hint: J. Edgar was the one in the dress. . (San Francisco Chronicle)
What's new on video May 14, 2008
the only studio that endorsed Franklin Roosevelt over Herbert Hoover in the 1932 election. (It ended up endorsing Alf Landon in 1936. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
FROM THE BACK PORCH - Cheating May 13, 2008
Herbert Hoover and Bob Dole would have beaten Kerry in a landslide even though Hoover is dead and Dole is ancient history. Richard Nixon and his supporters were experts at dirty tricks. (DeRidder Beauregard Daily News, LA)
Shia LaBeouf talks up Harrison Ford May 13, 2008
But she is determined to shatter the received wisdom that President Herbert Hoover caused the Great Depression. She says this is not so and she is working to "clear" his name. (Variety)
A better place to vacation than the Midwest? Maybe, maybe not May 13, 2008
It's hard to get excited about visiting the Herbert Hoover birthplace and library in West Branch, isn't it. Southwest Coloradans should know that we and the Hawkeye State embrace the same sport. (Durango Herald)
SPORTSWIRE - Righetti's Barajas reaches golf Finals May 13, 2008
A few schools have picked up home dates in early-week wild-card action: Santa Ynez baseball will host Oaks Christian in a Division IV wild-card game today at 3:15 p.m., while Arroyo Grande hosts Herbert Hoover of Glendale in Division II action. Cabrillo will be on the road at Beverly Hills in a Division IV wild-card game today at 3:15 p.m.. (Santa Maria Times)
Is McCain Sailing Into a Storm? May 12, 2008
Richard Norton Smith, a historian who has run the presidential libraries of Republicans Herbert Hoover, Dwight Eisenhower, Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan, is pessimistic about the party's prospects. He thinks the correct analogy is not 1988 but 1920 or 1952 -- when an unpopular war and an equally unpopular president spelled doom for the party in the White House. (Townhall.com)
Keller Ranch; soda can pull tabs May 12, 2008 Around the Square -- Standardized parts are legacy of Hoover May 8, 2008 Draining national prosperity May 7, 2008 Was Carville Involved? May 5, 2008 Politics and Punditry: Could this be 1924 all over again? May 4, 2008 Great pianists, great plays and a tormentor of Annie May 4, 2008 E.M. SwiftINSIDE OLYMPIC SPORTS May 2, 2008 Letters to the Editor May 2, 2008 Is He One of Us? May 2, 2008 Newsweek: Quakers hope to affect Pa. outcome Apr 22, 2008 Young scientists make state 04-20-2008 Apr 20, 2008 Young science wizards from Rio Rancho schools Apr 20, 2008 On Bad Air and Bad Hair Apr 19, 2008 Donna Reed Foundation receives archive grant Apr 18, 2008 No lack of resolution Apr 18, 2008 A new era of undocumented bond speculators? Apr 18, 2008 Mary McLeod Bethune Apr 17, 2008 Probable Pawlenty? Apr 17, 2008 W Goes Green? Apr 17, 2008 Analysis: Voter Economic Beliefs Unknown Apr 16, 2008 Survey Finds 98% Of Historians Consider Bush A 'Failure'... Apr 15, 2008 4 comments Apr 15, 2008 How safe are you from the Great Flood? Apr 15, 2008 Uncle Sam Pays? Sure, Whatever Apr 12, 2008 Letters to the editor (April 11) Apr 12, 2008 McCain, in shift, seeks U.S. help for homeowners Apr 11, 2008 The Black Death offinancial collapse Apr 10, 2008 History on tour in Stanford's MacFarland home Apr 10, 2008 Common Sense Apr 9, 2008 Want a recession? High rates will do it Apr 9, 2008 Boys & Girls Clubs’ roots go back to 1906 Apr 8, 2008 Click for Full Story Apr 7, 2008 Johnson: Out of the ordinary Apr 6, 2008 The Saturday Inside Scoop Apr 6, 2008 This and That About Campaigns, Elections Apr 5, 2008 Science fair brings lessons to life Apr 5, 2008 Sen. Arlen Specter brings life's tale to Forest Hills Apr 4, 2008 Third-graders learn from the past Apr 4, 2008 Reveal sperm bank daddies Apr 4, 2008 Tibet and the Olympic Games Apr 4, 2008 Navy to Christen The USNS... Apr 4, 2008 Invincible Ignorance Apr 3, 2008 Undue Haste on the Economy Apr 3, 2008 SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE OPED BUDGET Apr 3, 2008 Can John McCain win if U.S. has recession? Apr 2, 2008 The 'Isms' That Bedevil Bush Apr 2, 2008 Right at the End Apr 1, 2008 Partisan solutions won’t help Apr 1, 2008 Wanted: A modern-day Joe Kennedy Apr 1, 2008 Politics: Past rogues, layabouts make campaign mischief Mar 31, 2008 MAC'S MORTGAGE RX Mar 30, 2008 On the campaign trail ... Mar 30, 2008 A stargazer's guide to the spring sky Mar 29, 2008 Intervention or a bailout? Mar 28, 2008 Moberly Middle School students fare well at Regional Science Fair Mar 28, 2008 The Walking Debt Mar 28, 2008 911 audio and transcripts in Sueppel deaths Mar 27, 2008 McCain: Feds shouldn't do much about mortgage crisis Mar 26, 2008 McCain warns against hasty mortgage bailout Mar 26, 2008 Newsweek: Four agencies saving capitalism Mar 26, 2008 McCain talks housing crisis in LA area Mar 26, 2008 Government by Cliche Mar 24, 2008 On Your Mind Mar 24, 2008 Bush mixes concern, optimism on economy Mar 24, 2008 Move will triple size of HOM Furniture showroom (32) Mar 23, 2008
He ran a business leading people on pack trips into the Sierra, including then-Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover. Sometime before 1964, the old ranch land was purchased by Pacific Gas ric Co., which today leases the property to river rafting operations, said Sue Exline, Sierra National Forest spokeswoman. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
2 Northwest Iowa students qualify for national history contest May 8, 2008
" Her teacher is Jeanne Rust.-- Michael Schulz, Collin Shultz and Darren Johnson, all of Storm Lake High School won the Camp Silo Award sponsored by the Silo and Smokestacks Heritage Area for their project, "Herbert Hoover: Relief During Conflict. " Their teacher is Korey Cantrell.-- Sarah Kaemingk of Unity Christian High School at Orange City received the Outstanding Entry in Women's History Award sponsored by the General Federation of Women's Clubs of Iowa for her project, "The Women's... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
His name was Herbert Hoover, who was inaugurated president on March 4, 1929 ... My thanks to the Herbert Hoover Library Association, Presidential Library-Museum and National Historic Site in West Branch, Iowa, for their many courtesies when visiting there and for supplying the wealth of information used in this column. (Canton Daily Ledger, IL)
As happened to Herbert Hoover, it will be possible for the new president and/or Congress, through misguided protectionist or anti-capitalist policies, to make things sufficiently worse that a Great Depression Mark II ensues. Since none of the three remaining leading presidential candidates has a firm, well thought-out commitment to economic policies that would alleviate or solve the problem, and all have tendencies that might exacerbate it, the safest choice is probably to go for raw... (Asia Times Online)
But Bill is convinced he won because people EVERYWHERE are sick and tired of the Republican Party and of George Herbert Hoover Bush Jr. in particular. That was true then and is MUCH MORE TRUE today since gas prices have inflated MUCH MORE since 2006. (Human Events Online)
Four years later, Al Smith would be the Democratic nominee and would lose the presidency and most of the up-to-then solidly Democratic (and anti-Catholic) Southern and border states to Republican Herbert Hoover. With today s Democrats bickering about race including the egotistical Bill Clinton s indefensible charge that the Obama campaign had played the race card against him -- and religion with the terminally narcissistic Rev. Jeremiah Wright demonstrating that patronizing abrasiveness and... (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
"Annie" keeps chugging along as it introduces new generations to such songs as "It's the Hard Knock Life," "We'd Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover" and, of course, the belt-till-you-break-something "Tomorrow." The set design is completely different from the original 1977 production, Andrews says, and a few lines have been changed, but basically, it's still the same story and songs. After performing the role more than 200 times in this tour, Andrews has been completely immersed in the "Annie"... (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
And if that isn't enough, the diminutive (4' 9", 94 pounds) Johnson has already been cast in bronze, with the life-sized statue to be displayed in the Iowa Hall of Pride in Des Moines, opposite the black-and-white photos of Mamie Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover and Andy Williams. All this comes before the Beijing Olympics, at which Johnson hopes to become the third American woman, after Mary Lou Retton and Carly Patterson, to win an Olympic all-around gold. The world, it would seem, is the young... (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- More)
The last time tax policy was this wealth-friendly was from 1929 to 1933, under Herbert Hoover. The proverb, "He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches, and he that giveth to the rich, shall surely come to want" may have larger macroeconomic implications than commonly believed. (Christian Science Monitor)
By all odds, Republican retention of the White House should be as imperiled as it was in 1932, when the hapless Herbert Hoover faced FDR.. Yet John McCain, who presides over a dis 00004000 consolate party many of whose leading lights not only do not love him, they do not like him, is even money to be the next president of the United States. (Human Events Online)
Two Quakers have been elected to the U.S. presidency: Herbert Hoover in 1928 and Richard Nixon 40 years later, both on the GOP ticket. But in 2008 most Pennsylvania Quakers seem to be voting for one of the Democrats. (MSNBC -- Politics)
While neither received official places at the state competition, Givens did claim the Herbert Hoover Young Engineer Award, recognizing his project as an outstanding overall engineering project. When asked what the most fun portion of the state competition was, both students agreed it probably was the trip itself. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association for an outstanding engineering project (Medallion and certificate) to Nicolette I Quesada, Rio Rancho High School for Roll Up for Easy Access-a design evolution of P.E.A.R.L.. Atmospheric Physics, Inc. ( 250 cash award) to Rachel Marie Lopez, Rio Rancho High School for Ghost Nets: Biodegradable or Not. (Rio Rancho Observer, NM)
That puts them right over there with Herbert Hoover, who reversed Calvin Coolidges tax cuts thereby turning the recession of the hour into ... That puts them right over there with Herbert Hoover, who reversed Calvin Coolidges tax cuts thereby turning the recession of the hour into. (Townhall.com)
"We loaned some items to The Herbert Hoover Museum for their holiday display.". The foundation would like to make photos available online for research. (Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil, IA)
Resolved: That President Herbert Hoover should not be held responsible for the Great Depression. This was the topic of a debate April 10 as part of the A. Craig Baird Debate Forum. (Daily Iowan, IA)
" So, the same numbers that add up to average household debt equaling $8000 can also be interpreted as stating that most American households owe less than $2000, (once you count those without credit cards, those who pay off their bills, and those who fall below the median.) No question, I should have done better in differentiating between median and average numbers. But I don't think complacency is in order, or that Kevin Phillips' can be ignored. As the above-referenced chart on total U.S.... (Salon)
She attended the Child Welfare Conference in 1928 at the request of President Calvin Coolidge, and served on the White House Conference on Child Health at the request of President Herbert Hoover in 1930. In 1935, she created the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), and then became Special Advisor on Minority Affairs during President Franklin Roosevelt s terms in office, from 1935 to 1944. (Suite101.com)
Assuming of course that anybody in the USA can even gain access to an offshore bookie parlor after our current president, "Mr. Conservative" George Herbert Hoover Bush Jr. signed into law a Federal ban on Internet gambling, you punters Out There might consider putting some very short money on JOHN EDWARDS ultimately to be the Democratic nominee for president. The posted odds of Edwards winning are in excess of 500 - 1. (Human Events Online)
And now George Herbert Hoover Bush Jr. was to reduce our foreign consumption for a puny 20% over the course of 10 years. THANKS FOR NOTHING, JR.. (Human Events Online)
As it happens, another president embraced such policies in a time of economic slowdown and financial market turbulence: Herbert Hoover raised taxes on high earners sharply and, ignoring a letter signed by 1,000 economists, signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930. The results were not pretty. (CBS News)
We have become in many ways "France in America (FIA). Jack Kinch(1uncle) of OK Apr 14, 2008 14:25:38 PM If approval rating is a factor in their determination, doesn't the current congress earn the title of 'worst congress ever'? How many democrats/historians believed that when the Republican congress was ousted in 06, that the approval ratings of a democratic led congress would actually fall further, to an all-time low? Last time there was a democratic congress, they drew up the resolution that... (The Drudge Report)
Herbert Hoover raised taxes on high earners sharply and, ignoring a letter from 1,000 economists, signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930. The results were not pretty. (Human Events Online)
The Herbert Hoover of the housing bust. Alphonso Jackson, former secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, was everything you could want in a Cabinet member: vain, possibly corrupt, and sublimely inattentive to matters of national importance that fell directly under his responsibility. (Salon)
Herbert Hoover raised taxes on high earners sharply and, ignoring a letter from 1,000 economists, signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930 ... Herbert Hoover raised taxes on high earners sharply and, ignoring a letter from 1,000 economists, signed the Smoot-Hawley tariff in 1930. (Townhall.com)
truth patrol wrote on Apr 11, 2008 10:48 AM:" Nice to read Mr. Mulford's weekly diatribe against intercollegiate athletics. What day is next week's letter planned for, so I can be prepared to be enlightened some more? Of course, he probably never considered that many, many people in Corvallis are interested in who the Beavers' new basketball coach would be, and when he was hired, they wanted to learn about him. Wow, criticize the paper for putting something many, many of its readers are very... (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
The Democratic presidential candidates tried to paint McCain as out-of-touch and uncaring after the California speech Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has proposed $30 billion in federal aid to states to help homeowners, said it sounded remarkably like Herbert Hoover" and some Republicans expressed concern as well. One of his supporters, Senator Mel Martinez of Florida, said after the speech that he would give McCain "an incomplete. " "He stated the obvious, which is that we cannot rescue... (International Herald Tribune)
Eerily, they echo US President Herbert Hoover in 1929 immediately before the stock market crash of that year. Australia's situation contains some positive features. (Asia Times Online)
" What was known about A.B. Clark, though, was that he had collaborated with President Herbert Hoover and his wife, Lou, on their National Register house nearby, and that he willingly partnered with the owners to give them the house of their dreams. And left behind in the house that Lock now owned had been Olive MacFarland's dream house book. MacFarlands' dream home Olive was born in West Virginia and went to school in Ohio before she married Frank in 1902. He had been at Stanford since 1892;... (San Francisco Chronicle)
So John McCain urging restraint on federal programs and bailouts suddenly becomes Herbert Hoover. And those advocating active intervention, something akin to Jesus Christ. (Fox News)
On the other hand, President Warren Harding didn't raise taxes in 1921 as President Herbert Hoover did successively in 1930-32. Mr. Harding didn't raise tariffs as Mr. Hoover did in the infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act in 1930. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
After WWII, Herbert Hoover, irked by turmoil in the nation s streets, issued a 1,000 clubs, 1 million boys challenge. In 1972, that challenge was met and Indianapolis opened the 1,000th club. (Rio Rancho Observer, NM)
Today's Highlight in History:On April 7, 1927, an audience in New York watched as the image along with the voice of Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover was transmitted live from Washington in the first successful long-distance demonstration of television. On This Date:In 1862, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. (KWTX.com, TX)
"While other states in the Midwest churned out a more or less continuous stream of world-class worthies ... Iowa gave the world Donna Reed, Wyatt Earp, Herbert Hoover; and the guy who played Fred Mertz on I Love Lucy .". Johnson is a fitting addendum to that sentence. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Herbert Hoover has gone over to Abbie Hoffman. A solid red state has turned blue. (Oregon Sports -- Rivals.com)
The campaign for Herbert Hoover in 1928 featured "A Chicken in Every Pot; A Car in Every Garage." Helen Keller said this about voting: "We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee." W. C. Fields made a joke about voting: "Hell, I never vote for anybody. I always vote against." W. C. Fields said something a long time ago that still is in vogue: "I am not a member of any organized party-I'm a Democrat.". And maybe that's not all bad. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Herbert Hoover Young Engineer Award Jared Ahlers and Ian Lessly, Who needs batteries. (Spearfish Middle School). (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Some 20,000 men in the same position marched on Washington, D.C., in 1932 and set up a tent city, vowing to stay until former President Herbert Hoover gave them their pensions. They became known as the "Bonus Army.". (Bayside Times, NY)
Trobaugh's class spent the entire day at the Fairview Schoolhouse, a one-room schoolhouse across the street from the former Herbert Hoover Middle School on Country Club Boulevard. "They were real excited about today," she said. (Sioux City Journal, IO)
Democrats may not be able to agree on a Presidential nominee, but at least they re united on one thing: The ghost of Herbert Hoover now stalks the land. Senator Chuck Schumer you had already guessed that kicked off the revival last month on the Senate floor, claiming that the Bush Administration s policy was Let the economy sink and We heard that from Herbert Hoover ... A week later, Mr. Schumer returned to his history lesson in a press release claiming that this President is beginning to... (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Indeed, President Herbert Hoover attended no part of the 1932 Games in Los Angeles, even though they were on U.S. soil the first time ever. It is much too late, of course, to consider a change of venue for the 2008 Games. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Opinion)
That year, she received the Distinguished Flying Cross from the U.S. Congress, from the French government, and the Gold Medal of the National Geographic Society from President Herbert Hoover. In January 1935, Earhart became the first person to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif. (DOD DefenseLINK -- News)
Two days before, the Times editorialized: "In a statement issued last night, the White House asserted that the 'underlying economy remains sound.' With the fire alarm wailing on Wall Street and the country anxious for leadership, it gets an astonishing rerun of Herbert Hoover. When will Mr. Reagan start fighting the fire?" Actually, the economy in that last quarter of 1987 grew at 4 ... Newsweek that last week of October titled its news report "Panic 1987" and led with the sentence, "If it felt... (Townhall.com)
Herbert Hoover should have had such problems ... Herbert Hoover should have had such problems. (Townhall.com)
02ECHOOVER (Charlie Daniel, Knoxville News-Sentinel) -- President Bush excuses himself to consult with his economic adviser -- a portrait of Herbert Hoover. SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE Scripps Media Center 1090 Vermont Ave. N.W. Suite 1000 Washington, D.C. USA 20005 GENERAL LINE: 1. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Analysts and historians say not likely -- just ask Jimmy Carter or Herbert Hoover, sitting presidents who lost re-election bids in 1980 and 1932 against the backdrop of shrinking economies. Past economic slumps have dashed the hopes of both incumbent presidents and the nominees of the party in the White House. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Herbert Hoover supported it, and its greatest spokesman was the Lone Eagle, Charles Lindbergh. But America First did not make policy. (Human Events Online)
A gray presence, Taft s total absence of charisma made Herbert Hoover look like Rudolph Valentino. Buckley made conservatism fun, glamorous even, and soon he would launch his historic career. (The American Conservative)
Hillary Clinton has likened the situation to Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. And Sen. (Montana Standard, MT)
He has said that he does not believe in government interference in private markets, leading to charges that he is a reincarnation of Herbert Hoover, a not really fair analogy for either man. So with such dim political prospects, the Treasury effort is aimed more at assuring Americans that, while their tenure in office is short, those in charge are still on the job giving it their best. (Scripps Howard News Wire)
Herbert Hoover mentality, Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York said of the Bush administration. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Predictably, that had Clinton murmuring darkly about Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Yet she and her fellow Democrats don't seem to have learned any lessons from the current crisis - incredibly, they called for lowering the down-payment requirement on FHA-backed mortgages. (New York Post -- Opinions)
President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) He stopped briefly at the Butte airport Aug. 26, 1939, en route to Helena to address a statewide meeting of Republicans. President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) When Roosevelt first visited Butte on Aug. 18, 1920, he was Secretary of the Navy. (Montana Standard, MT)
Regulus is 77 light years distant; meaning that the light you see emanating from it tonight started on its journey toward Earth back in 1931, when Herbert Hoover was U.S. President, and Spain became a republic with the overthrow of King Alfonso XIII. The diameter of Regulus is estimated to be about five times that of ; its luminosity 160 times greater. Slide show. (MSNBC -- Technology)
In a speech this week, Clinton compared McCain's approach to that of Herbert Hoover, and said, "I don't think we can afford four more years of that kind of inaction." Obama, laying down his own marker on Thursday, declared that "the free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever you can get.". But the two Democrats have also proposed a number of changes such as the expanded role for Fannie and Freddie that Bush has recently adopted as well. (International Herald Tribune)
Jordan Winn received the Herbert Hoover Award and Engineering Award. Other special awards received by students include the Yale Science and Engineering Award to Anna Warren, and the Association of Geoscientists Award as well as the American Meteorologist Award for Outstanding Achievement went to Naomi Lewis. (Moberly Monitor-Index, MO)
Also, as correctly noted, the FHLBs are creatures of Herbert Hoover, not President Roosevelt. Freddie Mac, however, was created in 1970 by the FHLBs and later spun-off as its own entity in 1989. (Slate)
It says Herbert Hoover Highway ... Operator: Are you by Herbert Hoover Highway ... Operator: OK, you're near the Herbert Hoover Highway exit. (Daily Iowan, IA)
"He sounds remarkably like Herbert Hoover," Clinton told reporters in Greensburg, Pa. "I don't think that's good economic policy. The government has a number of tools at its disposal.". (Anchorage Daily News)
"It sounds remarkably like Herbert Hoover, and I don't think that's good economic policy," Clinton told reporters in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. "The government has a number of tools at its disposal. I think that inaction has contributed to the problems we face today, and I believe further inaction would exacerbate those problems.". (International Herald Tribune)
Many of them turned to the , which was (so let's give that one to Herbert Hoover) and provides capital to lenders. Indeed, had it not been for the FHLB, it's possible that the nation's largest mortgage lender, , might have gone under. (MSNBC -- Business)
Clinton, campaigning in Pennsylvania, told reporters that McCain's speech sounded "remarkably like [former President] Herbert Hoover," and said inaction had contributed to the current problems. "Further inaction would exacerbate those problems," she said, according to a transcript provided by her campaign. (Los Angeles Times)
These days Bush is more and more like Herbert Hoover, sort of whistling a happy tune as the economy heads south, Schumer intoned ... These days Bush is more and more like Herbert Hoover, sort of whistling a happy tune as the economy heads south, Schumer intoned. (Townhall.com)
Maybe the president is just putting on a good face to keep up American morale, the way Herbert Hoover did after the crash of 29, when he continued to dress in a tuxedo for dinner. Or maybe the old Andover cheerleader really believes his own cheers, and that prosperity will turn up any time now, just like the WMD in Iraq. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
As the nation was heading into the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover kept up the happy talk. "He was the most optimistic guy in the world," says Davis Houck, associate professor of communication at Florida State University and author of Rhetoric as Currency: Hoover, Roosevelt and the Great Depression. (USA Today -- News)
"Now, we'll be able to display almost everything that's advertised,'' he said.Siouxland rootsHOM, based in the Twin Cities suburb of Coon Rapids, Minn., is owned by Johansen, his brother, Rodney, and Carl Nyberg. The Johansen brothers attended Lincoln Elementary School and Herbert Hoover Junior High School in the 1960s, before their family moved to a farm near Beresford, S.D.The Johansen brothers and Nyberall each started their business careers in Sioux Falls. In 1973, Wayne Johansen opened a... (Sioux City Journal, IO)
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