president hoover

[ajama11]

president hoover tried to improve U.S foreign policy in the early 1930s by all of the following methodes except

[mike11111]

I doubt you'll get much luck on this site, mate. I must be one of the few people in the UK who have actually heard of President Hoover. His term of office was extremely short, being heavily defeated by Roosevelt in 1932 in the wake of the Wall Street Crash. If I remember correctly, at the time the US had a policy of isolation, which meant that they were not great supporters of the League of Nations.

[keepontrucking]

president Hoover had some good ideas

"Hoover leather" is used all over the world by the poor and helps to stop the blisters and stones getting inside your shoes.

[mike11111]

Hoover was not a patch on his predecessor, Calvin Coolidge, famous for his taciturnity. At a White House dinner a pushy society lady said to him, "Gee, Mr. President, my husband bet me I couldn't get three words out of you, but I bet him I could". The President turned to the lady and said, "You lose".

[keepontrucking]

Nice one :)

[Mosaic]

Mike - 'I must be one of the few people in the UK who have actually heard of President Hoover'
You and the swathes of people who have done the world political history option of AQA GCSE since the mid 1990s.
You are...unique....in your arrogance?

[Cowtipper]

Trade I think.

[sandyRoe]

Did the vacuum cleaner he invented help the USA out of economic recession?

[alexanderd]

Mike ,talk about arrogant, what makes you think you are "one of the few people on this sight to have heard of president Hoover"

[ladyalex]

I've even heard of President Coolidge.....so there!

[anneasquith]

oh mike, behave ,

[sandyRoe]

When he, Coolidge, died somebody told the famous wit, Dorothy Parker. How did they know, she asked. Maybe she wasn't on best form that day?

[Cowtipper]

He's famous here for public works- the Hoover Dam mostly. He's not one of the most successful presidents but he was one of the last to try to keep us from being the world police.

[ladyalex]

Maybe not, Sandy...or maybe you 'had to be there'...

[sandyRoe]

I suppose it's the way you tell 'em.

[sandyRoe]

Didn't Hoover give his name to squatter camps where the unemployed and homeless lived? Hoovervilles

[ladyalex]

She does have some other crackers.
One of my favourites is:

"Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong,
And I am Marie of Roumania."

[ladyalex]

Right again, Sandy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooverville

[sandyRoe]

Good. But not quite as good as:
Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker

[ladyalex]

Was that not Ogden Nash ?

[DTCwordfan]

Dam - is there a debate about Pres Hoover?