Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last week Herbert Hoover, returning to California after a tour of the East, arrived in Chicago. Knowing the best place to find him, newshawks marched into the office of Capitalist Arch Wilkinson Shaw, great & good Hoover friend. No trace of Mr. Hoover was to be seen but much in evidence was Mr. Hoover's traveling companion, Ben S. Allen, onetime Associated Pressman and Wartime assistant to Hoover in Belgium. Ben Allen, whose most notable job was press-agenting the Hoover Food Administration, passed out a typewritten Hoover statement...
...knew Mr. Hoover doubted that he had written the statement and taken great pleasure in doing so. But few who were familiar with Mr. Hoover's style in public statements doubted that Mr. Allen, recently reported to have resumed his post as Hoover literary mentor, had been responsible for the insertion of the last sarcastic sentence. Never before had Herbert Hoover fathered the best wisecrack of the week on any topic of public interest. Last week's achievement sent him on to his Palo Alto home grinning from...
Such talk was sweet music to the mayors which made other subjects sound dull and tuneless. Attorney General Cummings talked about crime control and the mayors made a tour through J. Edgar Hoover's Bureau of Investigation. Experts spoke to them on traffic safety, noise abatement, fire prevention. Senator Wagner urged them to support low-cost Government housing. One evening was given over to the problem of "busting the Gas Trust." But the conference really got back to business and excitement when it got back to the subject of relief and Government money...
...secret court"-was holding things up, waiting for the King to put the "golden seal" on the right papers. Two decades ago, Woodrow Wilson was reported to have been driven insane by the threat of shattering international disclosures concerning the Drake Estate. Later the story was that Messrs. Hoover, Mellon and Mills, "representing the Interests," were keeping the Drake money out of the country. Recently, Drake Estate agents have passed the word along that just as they got the Hoover Administration soaped up to let the fortune through, Franklin Roosevelt and his Democrats popped into power...
Students are not above reproach as far as hissing is concerned, however. "For instance," says Sumner, "undergraduates hiss newsreel shots of Roosevelt, the townies return the compliment when Hoover's visage flashes on the screen." From this reaction he deduces that the student body is fundamentally Republican...