Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Then it turns its attentions to murders, divorces, and Mr. Jenkins, and leaves the "laws of economics" and the politicians to punish the guilty ones and meet the future. It allows the "laws of economics" to set prices; it discovers that Mr. Hoover can set prices better than the "laws of economics"; it dismisses Mr. Hoover, and like a pettish child disposes of its railroads because, forsooth, it has not learned to run them. And this is the amorphous djinn to which we believers in democracy cheerfully trust our salvation...
...farewell address to the British people; 'Leave Russia alone, remove the blockade, adopt a policy of Gallio-like impartiality to all factions.' This is exactly where we stand; we believe that the only part we should take in Russia's affairs is relief work, such as Mr. Hoover did in Belgium...
Frank H. Simonds '00 was made a knight of the Legion of Honor at a dinner in Paris Saturday evening at which Herbert Hoover, director-general of the international relief organization was the principal speaker. The decoration was awarded by Minister of Commerce Clementel...
...world must not deny a special recognition to Mr. Hoover, chairman of the Belgian Relief Commission, who saved the Belgians from starvation and subsequently organized the food supply for the European Allies to tide them over critical times...
With strictly no offence to Mess. Hoover, Garfield, Endicott or Storrow, the Lampoon proceeds to have fun with the "--less" status to which our dally bread is now confined. In poetry, prose and picture Lampy finds life quite askew, and not so terribly boring as a result of enforced economies...