 | David Burner - 1998 - 328 páginas
...accepting the Republican presidential nomination, not long before the Great Depression. "We shall soon ... be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished" from the country. While in office, this wealthy and very generous philanthropist announced, in words that... | |
 | Frederick Lewis Allen - 1997 - 308 páginas
...yet reached the goal, but, given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of...day when poverty will be banished from this nation. There is no guarantee against poverty equal to a job for every man. That is the primary purpose of... | |
 | William L. Fox - 1997 - 606 páginas
...party, the candidate said, "Given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of...day when poverty will be banished from this nation." No one could imagine the squalid shantytowns of unemployed Americans in "Hooverville" a few years later.... | |
 | Martin Gardner - 1997 - 618 páginas
...the economy. More likely he will be seen by future historians as another Herbert Hoover. ("We should soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation," said Hoover just before the Big Crash of 1929). Conservative writer William Safire (in... | |
 | Fiona Venn - 1998 - 148 páginas
...America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us ... we shall...sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation.'' Along with the economic prosperity went political complacency and conservatism. The reform... | |
 | Robert G. Torricelli, Andrew Caroll - 1999 - 488 páginas
...United States. the last eight years," declared Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover, "and we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty ivill be banished from this nation." Hoover, orphaned at age ten and a self-made millionaire, served... | |
 | Senator Robert Torricelli, Andrew Carroll - 2000 - 486 páginas
...policies of the last eight years," declared Republican presidential candidate Herbert Hoover, "and we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of...day when poverty will be banished from this nation." Hoover, orphaned at age ten and a self-made millionaire, served as the secretary of commerce under... | |
 | T. H. Watkins - 2000 - 612 páginas
...forward with the policies of the last eight years," Hoover had said upon accepting the nomination, "we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation."11 "I might," advertising man Bruce Barton remarked, "get more fun out of having Smith... | |
 | James T. Patterson - 2009 - 330 páginas
...social scientists thought the United States had entered a "new era." As Herbert Hoover said in 1928, "We shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished in the nation." So assured and statistically minded a social engineer as Hoover could not have been... | |
 | Maury Klein - 2003 - 372 páginas
...America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. ... We shall...of the day when poverty will be banished from this earth." No man seemed better equipped or more competent to make this dream come true or handle the... | |
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The poorhouse is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but, given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this... 
