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...transfer of power to take place in the middle of a fiscal firestorm. In 1932 it didn't help that the two men neither liked nor trusted each other: Herbert Hoover called Franklin Roosevelt a "chameleon on plaid," while F.D.R. preferred the image of Hoover as a "fat, timid capon." Since Inauguration Day was not until March 1933, there was an urgent need for action, but Hoover's efforts to reach out to Roosevelt in the name of bipartisan cooperation were dismissed by critics as an attempt to annul the election and obstruct the New Deal. Hoover called Roosevelt...
...didn't help in 1932 that the two men neither liked nor trusted each other: Hoover called Roosevelt a "chameleon on plaid," while F.D.R. preferred the image of Hoover as a "fat, timid capon." In the final days of the campaign, Hoover denounced Roosevelt's "nonsense ... tirades ... glittering generalizations ... ignorance" and "defamation" on his way to losing to him in 42 of 48 states. Since Inauguration Day was not until March 4, 1933, and with the global financial system in tatters, there was urgent need for action - but Hoover's efforts to reach out to Roosevelt in the name...
...informed sources -- a fire sale. And the results for the art market if the World's Most Expensive Picture lost a third of its value in a year did not bear thinking about. "The last thing in the world we want," a senior Sotheby's executive remarked to Edmund Capon, director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, "is for that f------ picture to come back on the market...
...letter to Susann's attorney, Louis Nizer, after she filed suit. Capote went on to praise Nizer's own letter to him as well written: "If only your client . . . had your sense of style!" Susann took this badly and caricatured Capote in her novel Dolores as Horatio Capon, a gossipy painter who resembled a "blondish...
...theoutcome of last night's game. Mark D. Nielsen '86,a first-year student at the Law School, wageredwith his New York room-mate: "Next week I have togive an oral argument in front of 140 people, andif the Mets win, I have to give it with a Mets capon." Another pair of roommates bet a black-tiedinner on the outcome of the game...