Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...world at large a quarter century ago the name of Herbert Clark Hoover meant exactly nothing. But Californians, particularly Stanford alumni, were already proud of Engineer Hoover's success and, regarding him as their most distinguished Londoner, usually carried letters of introduction when they crossed the Atlantic. Hence it was inevitable that when Benjamin Shannon Allen, a scholarly young reporter with an A. B. and A. M. in history from Stanford, was assigned to Associated Press's London bureau in 1910, he should soon make his way to the Hoovers' "Red House." For four years the friendship...
After he had consented to feed starving Belgium, Mr. Hoover borrowed Newsman Allen from AP to do his publicity. The Press, especially in the U. S., was promptly flooded with news of the prodigious feats of organization, diplomacy and greathearted endurance by which a modest U. S. engineer was keeping an entire nation alive. When Mr. Hoover went home to be U. S. Food Administrator, Ben Allen went with him. Their joint efforts added a new word, "Hooverize," to the national vocabulary, made Mr. Hoover and his food edicts an intimate part of the daily life of every man, woman...
...reasonably doubtful that the nation would have voted the 30th and 31st U. S. Presidents into office so enthusiastically if those gentlemen had previously changed their official names to J. Cal Coolidge and Herb C. Hoover. Nonetheless a stream of important visitors, interested in helping make a 33rd President of the U. S., made their way during the past fortnight to the door of the Kansas Governor who was christened Alfred and now calls himself Alf. In the Press the kind of build-up which experienced partisans know how to produce for a favorite made the Landon name loom larger...
Political bird dogs quivered at the scent of a Hoover-Landon deal week before last when John Hamilton, Republican National Committee general counsel, and the following Hoover associates trod on each other's heels at the Governor's mansion: one-time Vice President Charles Curtis; Mark L. Requa, California National Committeeman; Henry J. Allen, Kansas' onetime Governor and U. S. Senator; William M. Jardine, Coolidge Secretary of Agriculture and Hoover Minister to Egypt...
Deal extravagance and unconstitutionality. Until the fifth, tenth or 15th ballots at Cleveland it seemed highly probable that not even Herbert Hoover would know whether he intended to be a king or a kingmaker. This week, with his ace publicity man Ben Allen, he was in St. Louis to discourse to the John Marshall Republican Club on "The New Deal Further Explored, Including Relief." Listening to this third Hoover barrage, wiseacres credited the fertile wit of onetime Newshawk Allen with the following: "When I comb over these [Relief] accounts of the New Deal my sympathy arises for the humble decimal...