Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Woodrow Wilson and Herbert Hoover both suffered severely from the disease of Presidents before they left the White House. Origin of the ailment is Presidential isolation from ordinary human contacts. It is aggravated by the fact that in order to get aids to carry out their policies, Presidents naturally surround themselves with advisers who admire them and sympathize with all their aims. Symptoms of the disease in the sufferer are 1) a growing impatience and resentment of criticism, 2) a feeling more or less openly expressed that he is being persecuted by men with unworthy motives, 3) a determination...
...President Hoover let Prohibition slip through his fingers. He was a traitor then and he is a Judas Iscariot now. . . . Why doesn't he do something now?" asked Dr. Clarence True Wilson, plaintive, goateed secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals...
...Herbert Hoover entered their Norwegian elkhound "Weegie" in the pet parade of Palo Alto's Spring Festival...
...amateur plastic surgeon who altered the fingertips and features of the late John Dillinger is in prison for compounding that blackguard's felonies. But the scare over what plastic surgery can do to mask a crook's identity keeps mounting. Director John Edgar Hoover of the U. S. Bureau of Investigation writes severe letters to medical journals threatening to jail surgeons who aid crooks in this way. He puts squarely upon the shoulders of all plastic surgeons the burden of discovering whether or not their patients are law breakers. Perturbed, Commissioner Lewis Valentine of New York City...
...rank & filers were in open revolt. "We have floundered along for two years without knowing whether we were going to be locked up or not," trumpeted Chicago's Silas Hardy Strawn, the Chamber's head under Herbert Hoover. "I think we have the right to know where we are going. Businessmen are tired of hearing promises to do constructive things, which turn out to be only attempts to Sovietize America. We are tired of dawdling and boondoggling...