Word: hoover
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fortnight ago President Roosevelt offered George Akerson, President Hoover's first secretary, a $6,000 job as a member of the Board of Veterans' Appeals (TIME, Sept. 17). Last week Mr. Akerson turned it down because he had obtained another job with "much greater security for my family's future...
...guns to Poland from Driggs to Vickers. Even before Britain had recovered from its shocked horror at this statement other big names came tumbling out into the open. In a few days other arms salesmen had dragged in: Edward of Wales (obstructing Curtiss-Wright sales to South America); Herbert Hoover (as an antidote for H. R. H.); President Rodriguez of Mexico; Admiral Ismael Galindez of Argentina; Juan Leguia, son of the late president of Peru; Brig. General Juan F. Azcarate Pino, military attaché of the Mexican Embassy at Washington; an unnamed Turkish Minister of Marine; Comptroller General Lopez...
...Legion. He drinks milk because a Wartime dose of mustard gas makes liquor unpalatable. A director of Puget Sound Power & Light Co., Nominee Odlin during the campaign called public attention to the fact that Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt owns private utility stock. Since he is as conservative as Herbert Hoover, Washington voters will have no complaint against obscurity of issues in the Senatorial race this autumn. And since Washington's registration is now 60%, Democratic, it is likely that there will be an EPIW Senator at Washington, if not an EPIC Governor in California...
...notch songwriting team. When they work on a show, they hire a hotel room, stay in it until the show is ready for rehearsal. They refer to typical musicomedy songs in jargon: a "restless" ("Moanin' Low"), a "Columbus" ("I Found A Million Dollar Baby"), a "Hoover" ("Just Around A Corner"). The coat, vest and pants of a song are its verse, transition and chorus. Dietz-Schwartz songs ("Something to Remember You By," "Dancing in the Dark," "Shine on Your Shoes," "New Sun in the Sky") have been critically commended for their literacy, their agile rhymes, their musical variety...
...ground for the year. Only a four-point drop in the Dow-Jones industrial averages was needed for chart-watchers to say that a bear market had been in progress for the major part of the New Deal. In terms of gold, stock prices were barely above the Hoover lows...