Word: hooverian
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Replied Chairman Baker, in true Hooverian vein: "Any extended system of Federal relief, however necessary, is attended by dangers..... It is our eager hope, as we know it is yours, that soon the entire burden of relief may be returned to local shoulders. . . . We venture to hope that this winter will see us past the edge of the crisis...
...Senate than Mr. Hughes. Taney was opposed for just the reverse of the reasons advanced against Mr. Hughes. He was a Southern Democrat whom such Whigs as Clay and Webster denounced as "a tool of Jacksonian power"-just as Mr. Hughes was denounced as "a tool of Hooverian power." Progressives charged Mr. Hughes with favoring monopoly; Whigs excoriated Taney for opposing it. Both were conceded to be excellent lawyers. The Senate confirmed Taney as Chief Justice March 15, 1836, by a vote of 29 to 15. He lived to write the famed Dred Scott decision (1857) which voided the Missouri...