Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this second year of the U. S. New Deal it is news when a busy Secretary of Agriculture and an ex-President of the U. S. each write one. Secretary Wallace dictated his 83,000 words into a dictaphone, finished the first draft in three months. Ex-President Hoover simmered over his 50,000 words for a year. As books, Bertrand Russell's is incomparably the best of the three, but more readers will prefer to hear what Authors Wallace and Hoover have to say for and against the New Deal rather than listen to the lucid skepticism...
...unready writer, Herbert Hoover would be inarticulate without the cliches of politics. Written with obviously frowning care, The Challenge to Liberty is thick with such muddy passages as this: "Today, these complexities, added to the aftermaths of war, loom large, and the voices of discouragement join with the voices of other social faiths to assert that an irreconcilable conflict has arisen in which Liberty must be sacrificed upon the altar of the Machine Age." Liberals will be surprised to hear Herbert Hoover speaking in defense of Liberalism but will soon discover that what he means by Liberalism...
...Author Hoover thinks the New Deal a lot of dangerous nonsense; all business needs is confidence that the Bill of Rights is still in force. "Recovery from this depression is inevitable, though it may be slowed up by government policies. . . . If confidence were restored in the securities of Liberty we should move forward irresistibly." Though he does not believe that revolution has yet "swept the United States . . . there are some who are trying to bring it about." With real, unconsciously revolutionary passion he prophesies: "The spark of liberty in the mind and spirit of man cannot be long extinguished...
...those used in the kidnap ladder. In Washington the Department of Justice thought it was on the trail of a prime clue when it found that Hauptmann's footprints corresponded with footprints left in the mud beside the Lindbergh home the night of the abduction. John Edgar Hoover, chief of the Division of Investigation, continued to steal thunder from his brother. Steamboat Inspector Dickerson Naylor Hoover, whose Mono Castle investigation was shoved off front pages by the Lindbergh case. Investigator Hoover declared he was looking for a woman and a "stoop-shouldered man" who might have been accomplices...
...YEARS IN THE WHITE HOUSE-Irwin Hood ("Ike") Hoover-Houghton Mifflm ($3.50). The ex-Chief Usher of the White House tells all. Scrappy but good reading...