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Former U.S. President Herbert Hoover, who served two terms from 1929 to 1937, has passed away at the age of 89, reportedly just hours after visiting a “YellowNet” terminal and visiting the chatrooms. The Former President died after viewing the “joyous activities” many individuals had used the yellownet for, his last words reportedly being ”What a great program!".
During the first Great War, Hoover formed and chaired the “Commission for Relief in Bavaria”, a non-profit organization with the goal of providing relief to the citizens of Europe in the war. After losing a bid for President and Chairman of the Party at the 1920 LNC, Hoover would throw his support behind Warren G. Harding, who would win the 1920 Election over Vice President McCarthy. Harding appointed Hoover to the position of Secretary of the Treasury, where he would oversee the reorganization of the National Health Service in 1923 by switching from a tax-funded program to a premium-funded program, along with privatizing individual hospitals. Hoover additionally began the program to pay off the national debt by using revenue from the land value tax, a feat that was accomplished finally in 1930. Additionally, Hoover oversaw the recovery and aid efforts given to Yokohama following a devastating earthquake.
In 1924, he would run for the Vice Presidency but lose the nomination to Calvin Coolidge, despite being the favourite candidate of now-President John F. Fitzgerald. Although Fitzgerald was expected to narrowly win re-election, he was defeated by Senator Upton Sinclair of California, and Hoover was ousted from the cabinet. In 1926, he successfully was elected Chairman of the Liberal Party.
Ahead of the 1928 Election, Hoover initially did not intend to seek the Presidency, privately hoping that Senator Arthur Capper or former President Fitzgerald would run. However, after a poll conducted among Liberal delegates showed Hoover as the favourite to win the nomination, the Chairman ultimately decided to run, winning on the first ballot with over 70% of the delegates.
The Democratic-Labour Party nominated popular Louisiana Senator Andrew Lattimore for the Presidency, with Al Smith as his running mate. The election was initially expected to be close, with Lattimore and Hoover tied in many polls. The closeness of the polls motivated Hoover to agree to a presidential radio debate, the first to be conducted in the nation’s history. During the debate, Lattimore defended his position on southern segregation and declined to support civil rights for African-Americans, which caused Smith to resign from the ticket and his polling numbers to collapse. Hoover was elected the 34th President of the United States, receiving 526 electoral votes and 45% of the popular vote on election night.
Hoover’s first term saw the beginning of the recovery of the national economy after Hoover worked with Senatorial leaders to cut taxes and lower international tariffs, with both tariff and tax rates averaging 3% by the end of his first term. Hoover also used the FBI to covertly destabilize the UKA from within, leading to the organization’s collapse in 1931. In 1932, he defeated challenger Thomas Pope in a landslide, winning every state with the exception of Sauk. However, Hoover’s second term would be marked by the beginning of the Long Halloween, a prolonged depression that would prove his downfall. Although he initially intended not to seek a third term in the 1936 election, the beginning of the depression motivated him to do so. Alas, Hoover would be defeated in a landslide by Al Smith.
After his defeat, Hoover would return to California, being elected Governor and then Senator, both times defeating Kai Alonso-Hikimura. He would also be elected to a second non-consecutive term as Chairman of the Liberal Party, serving from 1941 to 1947.
Upon the outbreak of the second Great War in 1941, Hoover would return to his position of Chairman of the Commission for Relief in Bavaria. In 1943, President Smith merged the organization with the War Production Board, and appointed Hoover as his chair. After resigning from the Senate, Hoover would lead the organization throughout the war, negotiating food supplies to allies, producing allied war posters, and determining rationing measures for the civilian population. Upon the war’s conclusion, he resigned from his position and announced his retirement. However, Hoover would be enraged by Ulysses S. Grant III’s party-switch in the 1952 election, and vigorously opposed his former ally’s campaign to be President. After Grant’s election, privately, the now 80-year-old mulled a bid for a non-consecutive term in 1956, running for a seat in the House of Representatives during the 1954 midterms in order to launch his bid. Hoover’s campaign, nonetheless, failed to take off, and at the 1956 convention he endorsed former President Richardson for a third term. He declined to seek re-election in 1956, and finally retired.
In his retirement, Hoover would participate in charity work around the country, before settling down in 1962 and passing away two years later
In a landmark development heralding a new era of corporate efficiency and innovation, Consolidated Cybernetics has released the first corporate models of its YellowNet system aimed at widespread day-to day use, initiating the widespread adoption of computing solutions in office spaces across the country. With recent advances in computer technology this coming shift in the way businesses operate, paves the way for a future where technology plays an integral role in every facet of organizational functioning. With the creation of early "net systems" and inter-network communications, offices around the country have slowly started the shift to computer organizational work.
Internationally similar systems have started arising from the Soviet Kronos Network to the Japanese Kyūsen System. With a new era of technology at the horizon, many can only speculate the affects of the burgeoning industry. Already major changes in the Banking world have developed with the Bank of America in the United States in co-ordination with YellowNet systems in Elutheria have programmed and constructed the first "Automated Teller Machine". Its use is predicted to grow along the YellowNet network as other companies seek to adopt and create their own version of the ATM. Similar mechanisms of Automation await the Manufacturing world as early robotics has started implementation in various factories around the country.
Back to the specifics of the Early YellowNet hub the network features its own news network and connection map, with other features reportedly a work in progress you can findout more by connecting to your local YellowNet Computer.
In the aftermath of the 1960 insurrection, a previously slowing migration of African Americans from the South had reinvigorated to numbers unseen since the 1920s. Fearing increasing racial tensions and blowback from Southern Whites, as well as survivors wary of re-runs of the Atlanta Massacres or Louisiana death-camps. Many more African Americans within the South would continue the emigration to Northern States and safer cities, from Houston to Richmond blacks across the South in the hundreds of thousands totaling in the low millions would over the next few years start a new wave of migration.
This new-wave of African Americans would find themselves in a multitude of places, from those in New Orleans moving to urban Caribbean cities such as Havana, and Merida. To those in unfriendly upper southern states moving to nearby bastions of safety in cities like St. Louis and previously established migratory points such as Chicago and Detroit. Many of these new arrivals in the Midwest and New England, and even Plain States would find themselves facing both opportunities and challenges in their new communities. While some found better job prospects and improved living conditions, others encountered discrimination and segregation, albeit in different forms from those they experienced in the South.
In cities like Chicago and Detroit, where African American communities had been established for decades, newcomers often formed tight-knit networks within existing neighborhoods, providing support and much needed guidance to new arrivals. Churches and community centers became focal points for social and political organizing, advocating for civil rights and economic opportunities. This influx of new people would give rise to a burgeoning second Harlem Renaissance, as contemporary southern African-American culture mixed with the established trends and tastes of those established within Northern Urban centers.
*The atmosphere wasn't all rosy however as those migrating to newer pastures following the American railroad system and arriving in areas such as the rural American Great Plains would find themselves met with a familiar sense of exclusion and hardship. None the less among states like Omaha several notable new African-American settlements would be established in a similar vein to that of the Asian majority towns created along the West Coast and Rockies during the goldrush. While not having the same cultural splendor or wealth as those who migrated to the Urban North or South. Those who went westward would find themselves developing into a culture of their own.
It was a oddly quiet night in the Urban Cities of the Pacific west coast. The San Francisco belltower clock read 11:59 as the illegal drug trafficking center that was the Coastal Olive Inn reveled in the weeks earnings. The clock struck 12 and in a scene that played out in illegal gambling dens, hideouts, and homes of Yakuza/Triad members across the entire Pacific law enforcement stormed in arresting thousands and confiscating tons upon tons of illegal drugs. In some places victims of human trafficking were saved or located as small fire fights raged across a few urban centers. From Vancouver to San Diego, Tokyo to Manila the international and national law enforcement agencies of the Pacific worked together successfully to eliminate one of the largest crime syndicates in the globe. In the city of Kamakura, Japan the illusive founder of the crime syndicate Kakuji Inagawa would be caught surrounded in the back-alley of his estate. After over a decade of crime he'd be busted due to a joint American-Japanese investigation that had unearthed nearly 5 billion dollars worth of tax fraud and asset manipulation. While it was certainly the needle in a long hay stack of crimes committed it was one that the governments would be able to successfully prosecute in court. In Los Angles California a similar fate would play out for one Chao Ning leader of the regional Bamboo Union Triad often referred to as "The Duck Prince" he was charged for orchestrating the deaths of over a 1,000 people. As the sun reared its head to a early morning in the West Coast, Operation Cherry Blossom the FIS-CIA-CIRO-PISA joint mission done in cooperation with local ,state, federal, and international operatives was deemed a overall success. With only 4 of the two dozen key targets escaping capture, and 80% of identified compounds raided during operation. The Operation had cleared out nearly 189 tons of illegal material in the United States alone. Becoming not only the largest drug bust in United States history but also the most expensive with the illicit material having a total estimated street value in the tens of billions. The operation in the United States had arrested 10,893 figures up and down the west coast who were part of their respective Yakuza or Triad. Most important of all though was the liberation of people held under human trafficking with about 1 dozen hideouts discovered and over 200 people free to see the light of day again. With the largest Yakuza group in operation in the United States permanently gutted, and various local Triad and Yakuza groups eliminated organized crime in the West Coast and wider pacific has been dealt a significant blow for now.