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Reception (4)
What the press and public understood candidates to stand for — versus what they said.
Hoover's mobilization of business and banking committees is ceremonial — 'his new panel of honorary pallbearers' — and Democrats call it propaganda.
Of course, not everybody is deeply imprest, as is evident from the Baltimore Evening Sun's (Ind.) ironic reference to President Hoover's speech before
The Digest's own summary found 'a distinctly impressive gathering'; skeptical and impressed readings coexisted.
The Hoover administration is the greatest peacetime spender in history, piling bureau on bureau.
I accuse the present Administration of being the greatest spending Administration in peace times in all our history.
Ordinary expenditures excluding depression relief fell; total outlays rose because of RFC capital, relief and construction — the same distinction Roosevelt later used for his own budgets.
Hoover did absolutely nothing to remedy the crash from October to December 1929 and delayed relief and economy for years.
From that day to December 31st of that year, he did absolutely nothing to remedy the situation. Not only did he do nothing, but he took the position that Congress could do nothing.
Hoover's November 1929 conferences and public-works requests contradict the literal charge; Hoover answered it point by point at Indianapolis.
Hoover's invitation to the President-elect to confer on the debt notes was hailed as wise and statesmanlike; Roosevelt's acceptance won equal praise.
President Hoover's gesture of cooperation is hailed everywhere as wise, politic, patriotic, statesman- like. President-elect Roosevelt's gracious acceptance similarly wins the plaudits of the press.