Word: hooverisms
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...River flood control plans last week prompted President Hoover to hold up construction contracts pending further legal surveys by his Secretary of War and Attorney General. Con-troversy was renewed over flowage rights across river lands...
...hunt Marco Polo's lost sheep (Ovis poli) for Chicago's Field Museum. Last week Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was again playing, in an Indo-Chinese place where the wild beasts race, when he succeeded at last in becoming a Governor ?of Porto Rico?by appointment of President Hoover...
Littleton of the Board of Tax Appeals. Mr. Mellon knew which of these three he would prefer; but when, at the end of the week, President Hoover made the appointment, no one of the three was chosen. The Kentucky G. O. P. had proposed, and President Hoover accepted, Robert Hendry Lucas of Louisville, for eight years...
This year, many have been the tribulations of Kentucky Republicans in trying to collect what they consider their just patronage reward for carrying their State for the Hoover-Curtis ticket. They tried and failed to squeeze Mrs. Alvin T. Hert, Vice Chairman of the Republican National Committee, into the Hoover Cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. Kentucky's Republican Senator Frederic Moseley Sackett Jr. produced a candidate for Solicitor General, then one for Assistant Attorney General, but both offices went to other men. Kentucky's patronage demands de-scended to an appeal to President Hoover to appoint...
...President was told that the very life-breath of Republicanism in Kentucky depended upon the Lucas appointment as Commissioner of Internal Revenue. President Hoover reluctantly acquiesced. Good man though Kentucky's Lucas might prove to be, he did not, at face value, represent the big-bore, experienced businessman that had been prescribed by Treasury chiefs and first-class Senators to administer the vital tax-collecting branch of the Government...