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Hoover's attempts at regulating radio were not supported by all Congressmen, and he received much opposition from the Senate and from radio station owners.
Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.
When his job at the post office was eliminated by Hoover's policies of the Great Depression, he was forced to go on relief in 1931.
* Company history from Hoover's Company Profiles at answers. com
Several reports on the terrible situation in the refugee camps, including one by the Colored Advisory Commission by Robert Russa Moton, were kept out of the media at Hoover's request, with the pledge of further reforms for blacks after the presidential election.
* Avaya Inc at Hoover's
This brigade became the 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, XIV Corps, which he led at the Battle of Hoover's Gap.
He was at first an ardent supporter of President Herbert Hoover but he became discouraged by Hoover's intransigence and failures in dealing with the Great Depression.
Encouraged by his mother, Hatfield's first experience with politics came at the age of 10, when he campaigned in his neighborhood for President Herbert Hoover's 1932 re-election campaign.
The Bonus Army incident proved disastrous for Hoover's chances at re-election ; he lost the 1932 election in a landslide to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
This effectively meant that most white-collar jobs at Hoover's North Canton location would be eliminated.
Bob Hoover's Shrike Commander at the Udvar-Hazy Center
Factors weighing against them included their apparent presence in Kansas City at the time, eyewitness identifications ( which have been contested ), Richetti's fingerprint said to have been recovered from a beer bottle at Miller's hideout, an underworld account naming Floyd and Richetti as the gunmen, and Hoover's firm advocacy of their guilt.
Other high profile events hosted at Stanford Stadium include Herbert Hoover's acceptance speech for the 1928 Republican Presidential nomination, and international football matches for the 1984 Summer Olympics ( as one of three venues outside Southern California for that Olympiad ), the 1994 FIFA World Cup, and the 1999 FIFA Women's World Cup.
The library was officially opened to the public on August 10, 1962, Hoover's 88th birthday .. Former President Hoover and Former President Harry Truman were present at the dedication where Hoover recited the following:
Rosecrans was frustrated that the victory at Hoover's Gap and the Tullahoma Campaign were overshadowed by two other Union victories in the summer of 1863, the Siege of Vicksburg and Battle of Gettysburg.
The company is now a subsidiary of Dun & Bradstreet, which bought Hoover's for $ 119 million in 2003 even though a higher offer was submitted at $ 138 million and the sale opposed by Disciplined Growth Investors, an asset management firm that held 5. 3 % of Hoover's shares.
He rose to be a major in the 17th Ohio Volunteer Infantry and saw action at Mill Springs, Corinth, Stone River, Hoover's Gap, and Chickamauga.
Von Zell's blooper came at the end of a lengthy coverage of Hoover's career in which he had correctly pronounced the President's name several times.
* Louie Louie: The History and Mythology of the World's Most Famous Rock ' n ' Roll song ; Including the Full Details of Its Torture and Persecution at the Hands of the Kingsmen, J. Edgar Hoover's F. B. I., and a Cast of Millions ; and Introducing, for the First Time Anywhere, the Actual Dirty Lyrics, ( Hyperion ), 1992.

Hoover's and Republican
Hoover's appeal to white voters yielded substantial results, including Republican victories in Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, and Texas.
As the year 1932 began, the Republican Party believed Hoover's protectionism and aggressive fiscal policies would solve the depression ; in any case, President Herbert Hoover controlled the party.
The United States Senate elections of 1930 occurred in the middle of Republican President Herbert Hoover's first term.
The strong economy gave Hoover's Republican Party victory in the election, picking up 32 House seats, almost all from the opposition Democratic Party, and increasing their majority.
His seamstess sister Isabel made dresses for Republican President Herbert Hoover's wife and 1920's actresses in Hollywood.

Hoover's and National
The members of the left-wing National Lawyers Guild were among the few attorneys who were willing to defend clients in communist-related cases, and this made the NLG a particular target of Hoover's.
The Hoover Library is located within to the Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, which contains Hoover's birth house and Hoover's father's blacksmith shop, and the West Branch Commercial Historic District which preserves aspects of West Branch's Main Street.
After Hoover's death in May, 1972, Attorney General Richard Kleindienst appointed Sullivan director of the newly created Office of National Narcotics Intelligence under the Department of Justice in June, 1972.
Osceola National Forest was created by President Herbert Hoover's proclamation, on July 10, 1931.

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During Hoover's 1907 visit to Australia, Jim Lyster relocated from Gwalia to Broken Hill and began experiments which resulted in the " Lyster Process ", which enabled the Zinc Corporation to operate the world's first selective or differential flotation plant, from September 1912.
Prior to the start of the Great Depression, Hoover's first Treasury Secretary, Andrew Mellon, had proposed and seen enacted, numerous tax cuts, which cut the top income tax rate from 73 % to 24 % ( under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge ).
In 1979, there was a large increase in conflict in the House Select Committee on Assassinations ( HSCA ) under Senator Richard Schweiker, which had re-opened the investigation into the assassination of President Kennedy, reported that Hoover's FBI " failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President ".
Playing on a stereotype of his famous TV role, he wore the trademark fedora and black suit when he made an appearance as guest host of a 1977 episode of NBC's Saturday Night Live that included a spoof of Highway Patrol, featuring Dan Aykroyd, a longtime fan of the original show, and one in which he portrayed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, in a humorous send-up of Hoover's suspect sexuality.
Hoover's job required extensive travel throughout remote, primitive and dangerous areas, which they did together.
In 1918 – 1919 he was in Paris as legal adviser for the American Relief Administration, Hoover's agency which distributed food to war-torn Europe.
Without being specific, Littell tips off Hoover about the plot, but due to Hoover's non-committal response, Littell surmises that there is a second assassination plot in the works, which will take place several days later in Dallas.
Felt was particularly unhappy with Gray's management style of the F. B. I., which was markedly different from Hoover's.
William DeWitt Mitchell ( September 9, 1874 – August 24, 1955 ) was appointed to the position of U. S. Solicitor General by Calvin Coolidge on June 4, 1925, which he held until he was appointed to the position of U. S. Attorney General for the entirety of Herbert Hoover's Presidency.
Strauss worked hard and well, and soon was promoted to Hoover's private secretary, a post in which he made powerful contacts that would serve him later on.
In 1919, Gerald Page-Wood-an Art Director of Erwin, Wassey & Company, Hoover's advertising agency-came up with a succinct slogan which summed up The Hoover's cleaning action-' It Beats ... as it Sweeps ... as it Cleans '.
In the US, Hoover's competition includes: Royal, Dirt Devil, and Vax ( all of which are owned by Hoover's Hong Kong owner Techtronic Industries ); Kirby ; Eureka ; Dyson ; Electrolux ; Oreck ; Panasonic ; Bissell ; and Kenmore ( the house brand of American store chain Sears, which is manufactured predominantly by Panasonic ).
As Deputy Attorney General of the United States from 1974 to 1975, Silberman was tasked with reviewing J. Edgar Hoover's secret files, which he has described as " the single worst experience of my long governmental service.
Whiting's appointment by President Coolidge to succeed Herbert Hoover surprised the Washington establishment, which had expected the position to be filled by Hoover's preferred candidate, Dr. Julius Klein, the director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
( It was part of J. Edgar Hoover's pattern of compiling information on leading politicians which he could use, in addition to tracking Mafia activities.

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