Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tons of flour from the U. S. Grain Corp. at a price of $1,685,000. Increased by the time it was funded in 1924 to $1,939,000 (including interest), Hungary's debt went into default with the War debts during the world crisis that provoked the Hoover Moratorium...
...Hoover Commission, leery of Federal control of the schools, vetoed Federal aid, even though it found some sections of the country too poor to afford a decent minimum of schooling. But Depression dramatized the "glaring inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile...
Signers of this report included three men who, as members of President Hoover's Commission, had voted the other way. Two of them were University of Chicago's Professor Charles Hubbard Judd and American Council on Education's George F. Zook. Most significant about-face was made by the third, the Rev. George Johnson, director of education of the National Catholic Welfare Conference. For the Committee had won Catholic support of Federal aid by recommending that States be allowed, if they chose, to give part of the Federal money to parochial schools...
...commercial aviation, which leads the world in volume, the airport at the U. S. capital is one of the world's most dangerous. While Berlin was making a fine airport even finer, Washington could do no better last week than agree to regulate traffic around its 140-acre Hoover Field "to prevent collisions." Too close to military fields, cut in half by a public road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp, airline pilots last year protested to the Bureau of Air Commerce against Washington airport's further use for big, modern transports...
...taste of Presidents Hoover and Wilson and of other prominent people for detective stories has been so publicized, said Detective-Story Writer Carolyn Wells, that now when bystanders see a man buying a detective story they wonder, "What great captain of industry is this...